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The dispersion characteristics of an circularly polarized electromagnetic wave of arbitrary amplitude, propagating in a highly (thermally and kinematically) relativistic plasma, are shown to approach those of a linear wave in an…

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Alfven waves propagating in a vertically stratified plasma, such as those travelling from the solar photosphere to the corona, are partially reflected due to the gradient in the Alfven speed. Wave reflection naturally results in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Roberto Soler

It has been reported that traveling waves propagate periodically and stably in sub-excitable systems driven by noise [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{88}, 138301 (2002)]. As a further investigation, here we observe different types of traveling…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-01-17 Fen-Ni Si , Quan-Xing Liu , Jin-Zhong Zhang , Lu-Qun Zhou

The scattering and transformation of the waves propagating in magnetized plasma on a heavy stationary charged particle located at a plane plasma-vacuum boundary is considered. The scattering (transformation) occurs due to the nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hrachya B. Nersisyan

The spectrum of electromagnetic waves propagating in a strongly coupled magnetized fully ionized hydrogen plasma is found. The ion motion and damping being neglected, the influence of the Coulomb coupling on the electromagnetic spectrum is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. M. Tkachenko , J. Ortner , V. M. Rylyuk

The work investigates the coupling between ion-acoustic waves and neutrino flavor oscillations in a non-relativistic electron-ion plasma under the influence of a mixed neutrino beam. Neutrino oscillations are mediated by the flavor…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Fernando Haas , Kellen Alves Pascoal , José Tito Mendonça

Data from the first two orbits of the Sun by Parker Solar Probe reveal that the solar wind sunward of 50 solar radii is replete with plasma waves and instabilities. One of the most prominent plasma wave power enhancements in this region…

Stochastic acceleration of electrons and protons by waves propagating parallel to the large scale magnetic fields of magnetized plasmas is studied with emphasis on the feasibility of accelerating particles from a thermal background to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Vahé Petrosian , Siming Liu

We consider weakly ionized plasma where frequent elastic scattering of electrons on neutrals change the individual acts and the rate of electron-electron collisions significantly. In this case, the kinetics of electron thermalization is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 B. Breizman , G. Stupakov , G. Vekstein

Slow magnetoacoustic waves are omnipresent in both natural and laboratory plasma systems. The wave-induced misbalance between plasma cooling and heating processes causes the amplification or attenuation, and also dispersion, of slow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 D. I. Zavershinskii , D. Y. Kolotkov , V. M. Nakariakov , N. E. Molevich , D. S. Ryashchikov

The solar atmosphere is magnetically structured and highly dynamic. Owing to the dynamic nature of the regions in which the magnetic structures exist, waves can be excited in them. Numerical investigations of wave propagation in small-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 G. Vigeesh , O. Steiner , S. S. Hasan

The weakly nonlinear regime of transverse paramagnetic dust grain oscillations in dusty (complex) plasma crystals is discussed. The nonlinearity, which is related to the sheath electric/magnetic field(s) and to the inter--grain…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ioannis Kourakis , Padma Kant Shukla

In this paper we present a concise overview of our recent results concerning the electric potential distribution around a small charged particle in weakly ionized plasmas. A number of different effects which influence plasma screening…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Manis Chaudhuri , Sergey A. Khrapak , Roman Kompaneets , Gregor E. Morfill

The extended solar corona at 10-30 solar radii is essentially devoid of all waves below 100 kHz other than triggered ion acoustic waves (TIAW), which consist of a low frequency electromagnetic wave at a frequency of a few Hz coupled to one…

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The collisionless plasmas in space and astrophysical environments are intrinsically multiscale in nature, behaving as conducting fluids at macroscales and kinetically at microscales comparable to ion- and/or electron-gyroradii. A…

The collision frequencies of electron-neutral-particle in the weakly ionized complex plasmas with the non-Maxwellian velocity distributions are studied. The average collision frequencies of electron-neutral-particle in the plasmas are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Hong Wang , Jiulin Du , Rui Huo

It is generally accepted that the ion acoustic (IA) wave in plasmas containing ions and electrons with the same temperature is of minor importance due to strong damping of the wave by hot resonant ions. In this work it will be shown that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Vranjes

Rapidly decaying slow magnetoacoustic waves are regularly observed in the solar coronal structures, offering a promising tool for a seismological diagnostics of the coronal plasma, including its thermodynamical properties. The effect of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 D. Y. Kolotkov , V. M. Nakariakov , D. I. Zavershinskii

Waves and oscillations have been observed in the Sun's atmosphere for over half a century. While such phenomena have readily been observed across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, spanning radio to gamma-ray sources, the underlying role…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 David B. Jess , Shahin Jafarzadeh , Peter H. Keys , Marco Stangalini , Gary Verth , Samuel D. T. Grant

In an attempt to understand the properties of convective energy transport in the solar convection zone, a numerical model has been constructed for turbulent flows in a compressible, radiation-coupled, non-magnetic, gravitationally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yong -Cheol Kim , Peter A. Fox , Sabatino Sofia , Pierre Demarque