Electrostatic ion-acoustic-like instabilities in the solar wind with a backstreaming alpha particle beam

Details Electrostatic ion-acoustic-like instabilities in the solar wind with a backstreaming alpha particle beam Electrostatic ion-acoustic-like instabilities in the solar wind with a backstreaming alpha particle beam

Dec 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufmsh53a1289g&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SH53A-1289

Physics

Plasma Physics

[7599] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / General Or Miscellaneous, [7815] Space Plasma Physics / Electrostatic Structures, [7844] Space Plasma Physics / Parametric Processes, [7868] Space Plasma Physics / Wave/Wave Interactions

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Nonlinear electrostatic instabilities have been shown to occur frequently and under very different conditions in a plasma with two ion beams such as the fast solar wind. These instabilities can be triggered when the phase velocity of electrostatic ion-acoustic propagating forward and backward relative to the interplanetary magnetic field overlap, due to the presence of a finite amplitude of circularly polarized wave. The instabilities can be triggered by waves supported by the same ion-component, or by waves supported by different ion-components. By assuming a beam of alpha particles moving backward relative to the external magnetic field, as observed in some events in the fast solar wind, it is shown that a very small negative drift velocity of the alpha particle beam relative to the core plasma - a few per cent of the local Alfvén velocity - can trigger a very rich variety of nonlinear electrostatic acoustic-like instabilities. Their growth rates can be rather large and they persist for a wide range of ion temperatures, provided that the alpha particle backstreaming beams, have much larger drift velocities.

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