Effect of electron inertia on the Alfvén-wave continuum
- 1 September 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 30 (3) , 1533-1534
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.30.1533
Abstract
It is shown that electron inertia removes the ideal magnetohydrodynamic Alfvén-wave continuum, leaving discrete modes which are damped.Keywords
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