THE KINETIC RESPONSE OF A STOCHASTIC PLASMA TO LOW-FREQUENCY PERTURBATIONS

被引:28
作者
HURRICANE, OA
PELLAT, R
CORONITI, FV
机构
[1] Department of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles
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10.1029/93GL03533
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
Following suggestion that substorm breakup might be caused by an interchange or ballooning instability, several MHD and gyro-kinetic stability analysis have been performed for plasma sheet magnetic field geometries. However, the stochastic ion dynamics in the highly stressed, thin high-beta near earth plasma sheet violate the locality requirements of MHD and the invarience of the magnetic moment, mu, required by gyro-kinetic theories. In this paper we develop a new linear Vlasov kinetic theory (for low frequency modes omega < omega(b), omega(b) being the bounce frequency) which includes the dynamics of stochastic ions.
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