Interaction of suprathermal solar wind electron fluxes with sheared whistler waves: fan instability

Details Interaction of suprathermal solar wind electron fluxes with sheared whistler waves: fan instability Interaction of suprathermal solar wind electron fluxes with sheared whistler waves: fan instability

Jul 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003angeo..21.1393k&link_type=abstract

Annales Geophysicae, vol. 21, Issue 7, pp.1393-1403

Physics

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Several in situ measurements performed in the solar wind evidenced that solar type III radio bursts were some-times associated with locally excited Langmuir waves, high-energy electron fluxes and low-frequency electrostatic and electromagnetic waves; moreover, in some cases, the simultaneous identification of energetic electron fluxes, Langmuir and whistler waves was performed. This paper shows how whistlers can be excited in the disturbed solar wind through the so-called fan instability by interacting with energetic electrons at the anomalous Doppler resonance. This instability process, which is driven by the anisotropy in the energetic electron velocity distribution along the ambient magnetic field, does not require any positive slope in the suprathermal electron tail and thus can account for physical situations where plateaued reduced electron velocity distributions were observed in solar wind plasmas in association with Langmuir and whistler waves. Owing to linear calculations of growth rates, we show that for disturbed solar wind conditions (that is, when suprathermal particle fluxes propagate along the ambient magnetic field), the fan instability can excite VLF waves (whistlers and lower hybrid waves) with characteristics close to those observed in space experiments.

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