Electromagnetic ion instabilities in a cometary environment

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Jan 1988

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 93, Jan. 1, 1988, p. 235-241. Research supported by Los Alamos National L

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Cometary Atmospheres, Electromagnetic Radiation, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Ion Beams, Magnetic Field Configurations, Solar Wind Velocity, Collisionless Plasmas, Comet Nuclei, Computational Astrophysics, Doppler Effect, Flow Velocity, Heavy Ions, Comets, Environment, Electromagnetic Effects, Ions, Stability, Plasma, Theoretical Studies, Magnetic Fields, Frequencies, Parameters, Density, Polarization, Protons, Oxygen, Calculations

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This paper considers the linear theory of electromagnetic ion beam and ion ring-beam instabilities in a homogeneous Vlasov plasma. Propagation parallel or antiparallel to a uniform magnetic field and frequencies at or below the proton cyclotron frequency are considered. For parameters representative of the distant cometary environment, the authors show that instabilities with right-hand polarization in the zero momentum frame have larger linear growth rates than left-hand polarized instabilities at α values up to 90° where α is the angle between the solar wind velocity and the uniform interplanetary magnetic field. If both a proton beam and an oxygen beam are present with α = 0°, two right-hand resonant instabilities may grow; these two modes are distinct and relatively independent of one another for a very wide range of proton/oxygen beam density ratios.

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