Instabilities of Alfvén and magnetosonic waves in dusty cometary plasmas with an ion ring beam

Details Instabilities of Alfvén and magnetosonic waves in dusty cometary plasmas with an ion ring beam Instabilities of Alfvén and magnetosonic waves in dusty cometary plasmas with an ion ring beam

Jan 1999

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Physics of Plasmas, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 36-43 (1999).

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Magnetohydrodynamics And Plasmas, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Macroinstabilities, Impurities In Plasmas

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The effects of charged dust grains on the instabilities of electromagnetic waves in the solar wind plasma due to ring-beam cometary ion velocity distributions are considered. The waves are assumed to propagate parallel to the solar wind magnetic field. Collisionless cold plasma theory is used to derive the dispersion relations of linear waves in the solar wind, for a delta-function ring-beam velocity distribution of cometary water-group ions. The resonant and nonresonant instabilities are considered, and it is shown that the dust has its greatest effect on the nonresonant firehose instability at very long wavelength. The dust can cause an unstable dust-free firehose mode to be stable, and vice versa. It is also shown that as the frequency approaches the cometary ion cyclotron frequency, there is an upper limit to the wave number for the unstable firehose mode. For the left-hand polarized wave, the presence of dust increases this upper wave number limit, until the firehose mode merges with the resonant mode. The right-hand polarized firehose mode also has an upper wave number limit, which is almost independent of the presence of dust. It is shown that, although there is a high frequency resonant instability of the normal whistler mode induced by the ring beam, there is no corresponding instability of the dust-induced whistler-like mode at low frequencies.

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