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Collisional destruction of the Bernstein modes in the high-frequency regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

W. Allan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Cranfield Institute of Technology
J. J. Sanderson
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of St Andrews

Abstract

The paper investigates the effect, on the Bernstein-mode dispersion relation, of a small collision frequency v, such that , for the high-frequency regime. It is shown that the ion-acoustic mode dominates the Bernstein modes in this regime for homogeneous plasmas; and it is suggested that this also holds for inhomogeneous plasmas.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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