Linear magnetohydrodynamic waves in a finely stratified plasma

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Mar 2000

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Physical Review E (Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics), Volume 61, Issue 3, March 2000,

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Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Electrostatic Waves And Oscillations, Magnetohydrodynamics And Plasmas

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In a number of astrophysical systems, the magnetic field, instead of varying over a scale comparable with the ``natural'' scale of the object (e.g., tens of thousands of kilometers in the case of the solar convective zone), varies over lengths that are orders of magnitude less than this (e.g., over distances down to 100 km in the case of the magnetic filaments detected in the upper part of the solar convective zone and probably present in much deeper layers). Therefore, the study of the propagation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in plasmas with fine magnetic nonuniformities is of considerable general importance for astrophysics. We have developed a general formalism that allows one to treat the propagation of large-scale MHD waves in a finely stratified medium. We demonstrate that the presence of a fine structure of the plasma may produce considerable modifications of the modes existing in a uniform plasma, with a number of propagation modes that may even increase. We also show that the slow MHD mode may experience a collisionless damping, which causes the wave energy to be converted into the energy of the peristaltic modes of the plasma ``resonant'' layers.

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