Mirror mode junctions as sources of radiation
Plasma Physics
2021-04-01 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
Mirror modes in collisionless high-temperature plasmas represent macroscopic high-temperature quasi-superconductors with bouncing electrons in discrete-particle resonance with thermal ion-sound noise contributing to the ion-mode growth beyond quasilinear stability. In the semi-classical GL approximation the conditions for phase transition are given. The quasi-superconducting state is of second kind causing a magnetically perforated plasma texture. Focussing on the interaction of mirror bubbles we apply semi-classical Josephson conditions and show that a mirror perforated plasma emits weak electromagnetic radiation which in the magnetosheath is in the sub-millimeter respectively infrared range.
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@article{arxiv.2101.00637,
title = {Mirror mode junctions as sources of radiation},
author = {R. A. Treumann and Wolfgang Baumjohann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00637},
year = {2021}
}
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17 pages, no figures, perspective paper