Properties of lower hybrid waves
Abstract
Most treatments of lower hybrid waves include either electromagnetic or warm-plasma effects, but not both. Here we compare numerical dispersion curves for lower hybrid waves with a new analytic dispersion relation that includes both warm and electromagnetic effects. Very good agreement is obtained over significant ranges in wavenumber and plasma parameters, except where ion magnetization effects become important.
- Publication:
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Universal Heliophysical Processes
- Pub Date:
- March 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921309029871
- Bibcode:
- 2009IAUS..257..569V
- Keywords:
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- waves;
- plasmas;
- acceleration of particles;
- solar system: general