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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: Excitation of electron waves and whistlers by reflected auroral electrons which possess a loss-cone distribution is investigated. Based on a given magnetic field and density model, the instability problem is studied over a broad region along the auroral field lines. This region covers altitudes ranging from one quarter of an earth radius to five earth radii. It is found that the growth rate is significant only in the region of low altitude, say below the source region of the auroral kilometric radiation. In the high altitude region the instability is insignificant either because of low refractive indices or because of small loss cone angles.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Planetary and Space Science (ISSN 0032-0633); 31; May 1983
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The amplification of fast extraordinary mode waves at frequencies very close to the electron cyclotron frequency, due to the presence of a population of energetic electrons with a loss-cone type distribution, is studied. Low-energy background electrons are included in the analysis. Two types of loss-cone distribution functions are considered, and it is found that the maximum growth rates for both distribution functions are of the same order of magnitude. When the thermal effects of the energetic electrons are included in the dispersion equation, the real frequencies of the waves are lower than those obtained by using the cold plasma approximation. This effect tends to enhance the growth rate. An idealized case including a parallel electric field such that the distribution function of the trapped energetic electrons is modified is also considered. It is assumed that the parallel electric field can remove the low-energy background electrons away from the source region of radiation. Both these effects increase the growth rate.
    Keywords: PLASMA PHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Plasma Physics; 28; Dec. 198
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2019-06-28
    Description: The investigation of the kinetic cross-field streaming instability, motivated by the research of collisionless shock waves and previously studied by Wu et al. (1983), is discussed more fully. Since in the ramp region of a quasi-perpendicular shock electrons can be preferentially heated in the direction transverse to the ambient magnetic field, it is both desirable and necessary to include the effect of the thermal anisotropy on the instability associated with a shock. It is found that Te-perpendicular greater than Te-parallel can significantly enhance the peak growth rate of the cross-field streaming instability when the electron beta is sufficiently high. Furthermore, the present analysis also improves the analytical and numerical solutions previously obtained.
    Keywords: PLASMA PHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Plasma Physics (ISSN 0022-3778); 32; 159-178
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2019-06-27
    Description: The effect of a small population of streaming ions on low-frequency waves with frequencies below the ion cyclotron frequency is analyzed for three modes of interest: Alfven waves, magnetosonic waves, and ion-cyclotron waves. The instability mechanism is the anomalous cyclotron resonance of the waves with the streaming ions. Conditions for excitation of the three types of waves are derived and expressions for the growth rates are obtained. Excitation of Alfven waves is possible even if the ratio of the densities of the streaming ions to the thermal ions is very small. For magnetosonic waves, excitation can easily occur if waves are propagating parallel or nearly parallel to the ambient magnetic field. As for ion-cyclotron waves, it is found that for the ion-whistler branch the excitation is suppressed over a broader range of wave frequencies than for the fast magnetosonic branch.
    Keywords: PLASMA PHYSICS
    Type: Physics of Fluids; 21; Aug. 197
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: A theory of generation of radio waves observed by ground-based facilities in the frequency range 150-700 kHz is discussed. This work is a continuation of an earlier discussion (Wu et al., 1989) in which it was proposed that the trapped electrons along the auroral field lines can lead to a cyclotron instability which amplifies the whistler waves observed at ground level. The objective of the present study is to investigate the propagation effect on the wave amplification and to examine whether the proposed mechanism is indeed viable.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 96; 1495-150
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  • 6
    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: The evolution of pitch angle anisotropy in initially isotropic spherical shell distribution of pickup ions subjected to a continuous influence of weak or moderate intrinsic solar wind turbulence is investigated using a physical model which assumes that the wave of the solar wind turbulence is propagating mainly in the direction parallel to the ambient magnetic field. It is shown that, because of the pitch angle dependence of the velocity diffusion process, a significant pitch angle anisotropy of pickup ion shell distribution develops in the early stage of the diffusion process. Although it is smeared out later on, the result can be of significant importance, especially if the pickup ion density is large, because the pitch angle anisotropy can excite collective instabilities and increase the wave level, thus accelerating the diffusion process.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 95; 17085-17
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  • 7
    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: The objective of the present study is to understand the interaction of the solar wind with newborn ions in far upstream regions of a comet where the level of intrinsic turbulence is moderately low. Based on the assumption that quasi-linear theory is adequate and applicable, the pitch angle diffusion process and the time evolution of the newborn ion distribution function are investigated. Numerical solutions to the quasi-linear diffusion equation, including the effect of resonance broadening and that of continuous creation of newborn ions due to the ionization process, are obtained under several assumptions and approximations. It is found that theoretical results are consistent with the Giotto observations recently reported by Neugebauer et al. (1989).
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 95; 17075-17
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 2019-07-13
    Description: This Letter reports on the results of numerical simulations which may provide a possible explanation for the strahl broadening during quiet solar conditions. The relevant processes involved in the broadening are due to kinetic quasi-linear wave-particle interaction. Making use of static analytical electron distribution in an inhomogeneous field, it is found that self-generated electrostatic waves at the plasma frequency, i.e., Langmuir waves, are capable of scattering the strahl component, resulting in energy and pitch-angle diffusion that broadens its velocity distribution significantly. The present theoretical results provide an alternative or complementary explanation to the usual whistler diffusion scenario, suggesting that self-induced electrostatic waves at the plasma frequency might play a key role in broadening the solar wind strahl during quiet solar conditions.
    Keywords: Solar Physics; Plasma Physics
    Type: GSFC-E-DAA-TN9121 , The Astrophysical Journal Letters; 769; 2; L30
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  • 9
    Publication Date: 2019-07-12
    Description: The temporal evolution of the distribution function of newborn ions under the influence of intrinsic low-frequency solar wind turbulences is studied. In particular, an initial ring-beam distribution of newborn ions under the influence of hydromagnetic waves is considered. A simplified treatment of the resonance broadening effect is given, and its role in the pickup process is discussed. Two different configurations of wave polarization amd direction of propagation are considered. The conditions that lead either to the formation of anisotropic shells as a long-duration transient state or to rapid isotropization of the ion pitch angle distribution are discussed, as are the conditions which lead to significant acceleration of the ions.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 95; 21203-21
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