The interchange instability in high-latitude plasma blobs

Details The interchange instability in high-latitude plasma blobs The interchange instability in high-latitude plasma blobs

Apr 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987jgr....92.3357c&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 92, April 1, 1987, p. 3357-3366. DNA-Navy-supported research.

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Ionospheric Disturbances, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Plasma Density, Polar Caps, Radar Scattering, Dense Plasmas, Electric Fields, Equilibrium Equations, Linear Equations

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The stability of high-latitude plasma density enhancements ('blobs') is analyzed with regard to the interchange mode (driven by neutral wind or equilibrium transverse electric field acting on the density gradient at the walls of the blobs). The effects arising from the finite parallel length of the blobs along the magnetic field lines are included in the analysis. Plasma regions of differing collisionalities, to which the blobs extend in altitude, are considered. It is found that the finite parallel blob size results in a modest reduction in the growth rates of the small (less than about 1 km) and intermediate (1-10 km) scale sizes but severely reduces the growth rates for the large scale sizes (greater than 10 km) for the observed parallel blob lengths (about 300-600 km). Further, it is found that the instability growth rates show a moderate reduction at higher altitudes (where ion-inertial effects may be dominant over the ion-neutral collisional effects). Thus, the E x B instability is considered a plausible candidate for the scintillation-causing irregularities (1-10 km) associated with the high-latitude blobs.

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