Parametric Excitation of Alfvén and Ion Acoustic Waves
- 27 May 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 32 (21) , 1172-1175
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.32.1172
Abstract
The threshold is derived for parametric excitation of Alfvén waves in a uniform plasma in which the background magnetic field is modulated sinusoidally in time. Including the plasma pressure we show that ion acoustic waves can also be excited directly. Both cases are absolutely unstable for any interaction length. Finally, we analyze the subsequent decay of the excited Alfvén wave into an ion acoustic and another Alfvén wave.Keywords
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