Effects of magnetic shear on lower hybrid waves in the suprauroral region
Abstract
Effects of magnetic shear on lower hybrid modes are investigated. It is shown that due to non-local effects, even a small shear can significantly affect the instability, leading to stabilization for some parameter ranges. These results are of importance in the context of the recently proposed mechanism of lower hybrid acceleration and ion evolution in the suprauroral region.
- Publication:
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Final Report
- Pub Date:
- January 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985bc...rept.....B
- Keywords:
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- Acceleration (Physics);
- Ion Accelerators;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- S Waves;
- Shear Properties;
- Boundary Value Problems;
- Cybernetics;
- Electron Density (Concentration);
- Electrostatics;
- Plasma Waves;
- Plasmas (Physics);
- Plasma Physics