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A physical model of parallel whistler-mode propagation in a weakly relativistic plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

S. S. Sazhin
Affiliation:
Pr. Kosmonavtov 18-2-44, Leningrad 196244, USSR*

Abstract

The process of parallel whistler-mode propagation in a weakly relativistic plasma is interpreted in terms of the periodic energy exchange between wave field and perturbed electron currents. The physical meaning of the thermal and relativistic corrections to the value of the refractive index of these waves in a cold plasma is considered in detail.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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