Solitary electrostatic ion cyclotron waves
- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Plasma Physics
- Vol. 18 (1) , 139-143
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022377800020936
Abstract
It is shown that solitary electrostatic ion cyclotron waves exist. An explicit solution is presented for the case of propagation near the ion-acoustic speed.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Ion-beam excitation of electrostatic ion-cyclotron wavesPhysics of Fluids, 1976
- Evidence that the electrostatic ion cyclotron instability is saturated by ion heatingPhysics of Fluids, 1975