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Relativistic theory of absorption and emission of electron cyclotron waves in anisotropic plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

A. Orefice
Affiliation:
Università di Milano, Via Caloria 2, 20133 Milano, and Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, Associazione EURATOM/ENEA/CNR, Milano, Italy

Abstract

The weakly relativistic theory of absorption and emission of electron cyclotron waves in hot magnetized plasmas is developed for a large class of anisotropic electron distribution functions. The results are expressed in terms of the weakly relativistic plasma dispersion functions, and therefore of the well-known plasma Z-function. The particular case of a loss-cone electron distribution function is presented as a simple example.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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