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Thermal effects on parallel-propagating electron cyclotron waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

P. A. Robinson
P. A. Robinson
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Abstract

Thermal effects on the dispersion of right-handed (RH) electron cyclotron waves propagating parallel to a uniform, ambient magnetic field are investigated in the strictly non-relativistic (‘classical’) and weakly relativistic approximations for real frequency and complex wave vector. In each approximation, the two branches of the RH mode reconnect near the cyclotron frequency as the plasma temperature is increased or the density is lowered. This reconnection occurs in a manner different from that previously assumed at parallel propagation and from that at perpendicular propagation, giving rise to a new mode near the cold plasma cut-off frequency ωxC. For both parallel and perpendicular propagation, it is noted that reconnection occurs approximately when the cyclotron line-width equals the width of the stop-band in the cold plasma dispersion relation. Inclusion of weakly relativistic effects is found to be necessary for quantitative calculations and for an accurate treatment of the new mode near ωxC. Weakly relativistic effects also modify the analytic properties of the dispersion relation so as to introduce a new family of weakly damped and undamped solutions.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 1987 , pp. 149 - 162
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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