Electrostatic broadband ELF wave emission by Alfvén wave breaking

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Apr 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998jgr...103.7027s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 103, Issue A4, p. 7027-7042

Physics

Plasma Physics

14

Ionosphere: Plasma Waves And Instabilities, Ionosphere: Topside Ionosphere, Space Plasma Physics: Kinetic And Mhd Theory, Space Plasma Physics: Wave/Particle Interactions

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The linear and nonlinear kinetic properties of electrostatic oblique waves below the lower hybrid frequency are investigated. For propagation angles ϑ=k∥/k⊥<me/mi the waves are damped by either parallel electron Landau or ion cyclotron damping. For Ti/Te>>1 the waves are only weakly damped and can propagate. These waves are called slow ion cyclotron (SIC) and slow ion acoustic (SIA) waves. A fluid-kinetic model, comprised of hot linear kinetic ions and cold nonlinear fluid electrons, is proposed to describe a nonlinear wave breaking process of small-scale Alfvén waves resulting in broadband extremely low-frequency (ELF) wave emission. Numerical solutions of the fluid-kinetic model are compared to the electric and magnetic fields of solitary kinetic Alfvén waves and broadband ELF waves observed by the Freja satellite within a hot ion environment. The agreement in waveform morphology and amplitude between the fluid-kinetic simulations and the observed waves provides support for the theory that observed SIA waves are the result of a nonlinear emission process from SIC waves.

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