Electrostatic turbulence in the earth's central plasma sheet produced by multiple-ring ion distributions

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Feb 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jgr....97.1533h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, Feb. 1, 1992, p. 1533-1540.

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Ion Distribution, Plasma Turbulence, Plasmasphere, Ring Currents, Space Plasmas, Electrostatics, Magnetoplasmadynamics, Plasma Resonance

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Attention is given to a mechanism to generate a broad spectrum of electrostatic turbulence in the quiet time central plasma sheet (CPS) plasma. It is shown theoretically that multiple-ring ion distributions can generate short-wavelength (less than about 1), electrostatic turbulence with frequencies less than about kVj, where Vj is the velocity of the jth ring. On the basis of a set of parameters from measurements made in the CPS, it is found that electrostatic turbulence can be generated with wavenumbers in the range of 0.02 and 1.0, with real frequencies in the range of 0 and 10, and with linear growth rates greater than 0.01 over a broad range of angles relative to the magnetic field (5-90 deg). These theoretical results are compared with wave data from ISEE 1 using an ion distribution function exhibiting multiple-ring structures observed at the same time. The theoretical results in the linear regime are found to be consistent with the wave data.

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