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Propagation of electromagnetic waves normal to a magnetic field in a uniform anisotropic Maxwellian plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

P. Stewart
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Manchester

Abstract

Closed forms are found for the dispersion relations describing the propagation through a uniform anisotropic plasma of the three modes of electromagnetic waves whose wave vectors are perpendicular to a steady and uniform magnetic field. Such relations are found to be conveniently expressed in terms of hypergeometric functions of the second order.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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