On the polarization, compression and nonoscillatory behavior of hydromagnetic waves associated with pickup ions

Details On the polarization, compression and nonoscillatory behavior of hydromagnetic waves associated with pickup ions On the polarization, compression and nonoscillatory behavior of hydromagnetic waves associated with pickup ions

May 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987georl..14..495b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 14, May 1987, p. 495-498.

Physics

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Comets, Compressibility, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Nonoscillatory Action, Polarization (Waves), Wave Excitation, Ampte (Satellites), Giacobini-Zinner Comet, Halley'S Comet, Linear Polarization, Obliqueness, Solar Wind Velocity, Wave Propagation

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Solution of the kinetic dispersion equation shows that heavy pickup ions with large perpendicular energies excite a new hydromagnetic wave mode with maximum growth, high (magnetic field and mass density) compression ratios, and almost linear polarization coexisting slightly away 6-15 deg from parallel propagation. The mode arises from the coupling of the heavy ion beam to the modified left-hand wave dispersion caused by the multiion nature of the medium. The ion beam can also bring about nonoscillatory, purely growing structures distinct from the mirror wave through the coupling of a counter-streaming left-hand mode to a costreaming right-hand wave. The free energy source parameters are varied to determine their relative influence and define the domain of existence of the instability. Its characteristics may prove helpful in the interpretation of recent cometary (Halley and Giacobini-Zinner) and artificial release (AMPTE) observations.

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