Growth rates of modulationally unstable ion-cyclotron Alfven waves
Abstract
This note presents analytical expressions for the growth rates of modulationally unstable Alfven-ion-cyclotron waves propagating along an external magnetic field. The results may be relevant to the electromagnetic ion-cyclotron resonance heating of laboratory plasmas, and they can also play an important role in the theory of nonlinear hydromagnetic waves in space and astrophysical plasmas.
- Publication:
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Physica Scripta
- Pub Date:
- August 1986
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1986PhyS...34..169S
- Keywords:
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- Ion Cyclotron Radiation;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Waves;
- Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction;
- Wave Propagation;
- Circular Polarization;
- Earth Magnetosphere;
- Plasma Heating;
- Schroedinger Equation;
- Solar Wind;
- Solitary Waves;
- Plasma Physics