Stimulated Brillouin scattering of an Alfvén wave in low-density plasmas
Abstract
The stimulated Brillouin scattering of Alfvén waves is studied in low-density plasmas. It is shown that ion-sound oscillations may be excited by this mechanism under suitable ionospheric conditions and that the presence of negative ions reduces the probability of such excitations.
- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 1986
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1986JPlPh..36..189J
- Keywords:
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- Brillouin Effect;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Waves;
- Plasma Interactions;
- Rarefied Plasmas;
- Space Plasmas;
- Wave Scattering;
- Cold Plasmas;
- Ionospheric Propagation;
- Negative Ions;
- Wave Dispersion;
- Wave Excitation;
- Geophysics