Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998p%26ss...46.1683g&link_type=abstract
Planetary and Space Science, Volume 46, Issue 11-12, p. 1683-1687.
Physics
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Scientific paper
It is well known that ion beam-plasma interactions can destabilize right- and left-hand polarized electromagnetic waves. However, these instabilities have been studied for frequencies less than the ion-beam gyrofrequency, with the exception of Goldstein and Wong (1987), and Brinca and Tsurutani (1988), who studied also the region of high frequencies (ω > Ωi, where Ωi is the ion-beam gyrofrequency), in connection with pickup cometary ions. It has been recently demonstrated that in the cold plasma theory, left- and right-hand modes can be destabilized in a rather large range of frequency and wavenumber values. It has also been shown that, in some cases, the unstable spectrum has a band structure. We study here thermal effects on the cold modes and show that, as the temperature increases, the band structure becomes a double-humped unstable spectrum. For even larger temperatures, the double-humped structure is washed out, remaining a single-humped spectrum, but with an instability range which is similar to the cold plasma case. We then apply these results to the solar wind.
Astudillo Hernán F.
Gomberoff Luis
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