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Ion-acoustic waves are routinely observed at collisionless shocks and could be an important source of resistivity. The source of instability and the effects of the waves are not fully understood. We show, using Magnetospheric Multiscale…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Daniel B. Graham , Yuri V. Khotyaintsev , Ahmad Lalti

A model of the fluid nonlinear frequency shift of ion acoustic waves (IAWs) in multi-ion species plasmas is presented, which considers the effect of ion temperature. Because the thermal ion exists in plasmas in inertial confinement fusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-27 Q. S. Feng , Q. Wang , L. H. Cao , C. Y. Zheng , Z. J. Liu , X. T. He

We show the evidence of ion-cyclotron dissipation mechanism in solar wind plasma using Helios data. From our statistical analysis we found that the wave power of high-frequency transverse waves (having frequencies between 0.01 and 1…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-27 Sofiane Bourouaine , Eckart Marsch , Fritz M. Neubauer

The analysis of the wave content inside a perpendicular bow shock indicates that heating of ions is related to the Lower-Hybrid-Drift (LHD) instability, and heating of electrons to the Electron-Cyclotron-Drift (ECD) instability. Both…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Krzysztof Stasiewicz

Our study investigates the properties of Alfv\'en waves in partially ionised solar plasmas in the presence of steady, field-aligned, flows of charged and neutral particles. Our work aims to understand how such flows modify wave propagation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Nada F. Alshehri , Istvan Ballai , Viktor Fedun , Gary Verth

The Alfven wave is analyzed in case of one quasineutral plasma propagating with some constant speed $v_0$ through another static quasineutral plasma. A dispersion equation is derived describing the Alfven wave coupled with the flow driven…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 J. Vranjes

The development of one-dimensional parametric instabilities of intense long-wave plasma waves is considered in terms of the so-called hybrid models, when electrons are treated as a fluid and ions are regarded as particles. The analysis is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 A. V. Kirichok , V. M. Kuklin , A. V. Pryimak , A. G. Zagorodny

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

Parametric instabilities of parallel propagating, circularly polarized finite amplitude Alfven waves in a uniform background plasma is studied, within a framework of one-dimensional Vlasov description for ions and massless electron fluid,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasuhiro Nariyuki , Tohru Hada

Ideal MHD provides an accurate description of low-frequency Alfv\'en waves in fully ionized plasmas. However, higher frequency waves in many plasmas of the solar atmosphere cannot be correctly described by ideal MHD and a more accurate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

Transverse electromagnetic and electrostatic plasma wave modes propagating along a background magnetic field $\vec{B}_0$ are independent according to linear kinetic theory. However, resonant interactions and energy exchange between waves…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Martín A. Quijada , Pablo S. Moya , Roberto E. Navarro

It is pointed out that the unmagnetized inhomogeneous plasmas can support a low frequency electromagnetic ion wave as a normal mode like Alfven wave of magnetized plasmas. But this is a coupled mode produced by the mixing of longitudinal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 Hamid Saleem

The Parker Solar Probe is in a solar orbit with a perihelion for orbit 12 at 13.3 solar radii. The electric field experiment on this satellite observes what we call triggered ion-acoustic waves as the most dominant wave mode above a few Hz…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Forrest Mozer , Stuart Bale , Paul Kellogg , Roberto Livi , Orlando Romeo , Ivan Vasko , Jaye Verniero

Ion-neutral collisions may lead to the damping of Alfven waves in chromospheric and prominence plasmas. Neutral helium atoms enhance the damping in certain temperature interval, where the ratio of neutral helium and neutral hydrogen atoms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. V. Zaqarashvili , M. L. Khodachenko , R. Soler

We simulate decaying turbulence in a homogeneous pair plasma using three dimensional electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) method. A uniform background magnetic field permeates the plasma such that the magnetic pressure is three times…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 R. Kumar , D. Eichler , M. Gaspari , A. Spitkovsky

We investigate, using a multi-fluid approach, the main properties of standing ion-acoustic modes driven by nonlinear standing Alfv\'en waves. The standing character of the Alfv\'enic pump is because we study the superposition of two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Jaume Terradas , Adolfo F. - Viñas , Jaime A. Araneda

In space plasmas, large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves can drive compressive perturbations, accelerate ion beams, and lead to plasma heating and the excitation of ion acoustic waves at kinetic scales. This energy channelling from fluid to kinetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Xin An , Anton Artemyev , Vassilis Angelopoulos , Terry Z. Liu , Ivan Vasko , David Malaspina

Plasma turbulence cascading from MHD to kinetic scales in the heliospheric plasma is believed to play a key role in coronal heating and fast solar wind acceleration, but the properties of the turbulence remain poorly constrained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie , Daniel L. Clarkson , Alexander Pitna

Solar wind ions are observed to be heated in the directions perpendicular to the large-scale magnetic field, with preferential heating given to heavy ions. In the solar corona, this heating may be responsible for the generation of the wind…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Philip A. Isenberg , Bernard J. Vasquez

Context. Spacecraft measurements have shown Kinetic Alfv\'en Waves propagating in the terrestrial magnetosphere at lower wavenormal angles than predicted by linear Vlasov theory of electron-proton plasmas. To explain these observations, it…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Nicolás Villarroel-Sepúlveda , Rodrigo A. López , Pablo S. Moya