Parametric instabilities in weakly magnetized plasma
Abstract
Parametric instabilities in a weakly magnetized plasma are discussed. The results are applied to waves excited by electron streams which travel outward from the sun along solar-wind magnetic field lines, as a type III solar radio burst.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- May 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1086/158923
- Bibcode:
- 1981ApJ...246..306W
- Keywords:
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- Electron Plasma;
- Interplanetary Magnetic Fields;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Solar Wind;
- Type 3 Bursts;
- Electrostatic Waves;
- Energy Transfer;
- Plasma Waves;
- Wave Dispersion;
- Wave Excitation;
- Solar Physics