Highly supersonic ion pulses in a collisionless magnetized plasma
作者:
R. Schrittwieser,
J. Juul Rasmussen,
期刊:
Physics of Fluids(00319171)
(AIP Available online 1982)
卷期:
Volume 25,
issue 1
页码: 48-51
ISSN:0031-9171
年代: 1982
DOI:10.1063/1.863628
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
The initial transient response of a collisionless plasma to a high positive voltage step is investigated. Four different pulses are observed. An electron plasma wave pulse is followed by an ion burst. The latter is overtaken and absorbed by a highly supersonic ion pulse. Thereafter, an ion rarefaction pulse with roughly the ion acoustic velocity propagates into the other direction. The supersonic pulse is tentatively explained as the result of a transient Buneman instability. Together with the rarefaction pulse, it forms the first cycle of an instability which is customarily considered a current‐ driven ion acoustic one, but is, in fact, a potential relaxation instability.
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