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The effect of lower-hybrid waves on the propagation of hydromagnetic waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Hiromitsu Hamabata
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka 558, Japan
Tomikazu Namikawa
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka 558, Japan
Kazuhiro Mori
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka 558, Japan

Abstract

Propagation characteristics of hydromagnetic waves in a magnetic plasma are investigated using the two-plasma fluid equations including the effect of lower-hybrid waves propagating perpendicularly to the magnetic field. The effect of lower-hybrid waves on the propagation of hydromagnetic waves is analysed in terms of phase speed, growth rate, refractive index, polarization and the amplitude relation between the density perturbation and the magnetic-field perturbation for the cases when hydromagnetic waves propagate in the plane whose normal is perpendicular to both the magnetic field and the propagation direction of lower-hybrid waves and in the plane perpendicular to the propagation direction of lower-hybrid waves. It is shown that hydromagnetic waves propagating at small angles to the propagation direction of lower-hybrid waves can be excited by the effect of lower-hybrid waves and the energy of excited waves propagates nearly parallel to the propagation direction of lower-hybrid waves.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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