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Helicon wave propagation: effect of electron inertia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

B. Davies
Affiliation:
School of Physical Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia

Abstract

We investigate the dispersion relation for travelling helicon waves in a uniform non-resistive plasma. We show that the effect of electron inertia for a cylindrical plasma bounded by conducting walls is qualitatively different from the plane wave case, leading to significant differences in the dispersion relation at all frequencies in the range 0 < ω < Ωe.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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