Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-04-25
New J.Phys.10:083004,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
submitted to New journal of Physics
Scientific paper
10.1088/1367-2630/10/8/083004
We discuss the parametric instabilities of large-amplitude parallel propagating Alfven waves using the 2-D PIC simulation code. First, we confirmed the results in the past study [Sakai et al, 2005] that the electrons are heated due to the modified two stream instability and that the ions are heated by the parallel propagating ion acoustic waves. However, although the past study argued that such parallel propagating longitudinal waves are excited by transverse modulation of parent Alfven wave, we consider these waves are more likely to be generated by the usual, parallel decay instability. Further, we performed other simulation runs with different polarization of the parent Alfven waves or the different ion thermal velocity. Numerical results suggest that the electron heating by the modified two stream instability due to the large amplitude Alfven waves is unimportant with most parameter sets.
Hada Tohru
Matsukiyo Shuichi
Nariyuki Yasuhiro
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