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Propagation of magnetodynamic waves into a collisionless current layer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

A. Hruška
Affiliation:
Division of Physics, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, KIA 0R6, Canada

Abstract

In a layer of magnetic field aligned current, waves corresonding to the slow mode in the limit of no current are absorbed and/or reflected as soon as they enter the layer, while, under certain conditions, the waves corresponding to the fast mode do propagate through the layer.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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