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Properties of lower hybrid waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2008

Alix L. Verdon
Affiliation:
School of Physics A28, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia email: a.nulsen@physics.usyd.edu.au
I. H. Cairns
Affiliation:
School of Physics A28, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia email: a.nulsen@physics.usyd.edu.au
D. B. Melrose
Affiliation:
School of Physics A28, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia email: a.nulsen@physics.usyd.edu.au
P. A. Robinson
Affiliation:
School of Physics A28, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia email: a.nulsen@physics.usyd.edu.au
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Abstract

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Most treatments of lower hybrid waves include either electromagnetic or warm-plasma effects, but not both. Here we compare numerical dispersion curves for lower hybrid waves with a new analytic dispersion relation that includes both warm and electromagnetic effects. Very good agreement is obtained over significant ranges in wavenumber and plasma parameters, except where ion magnetization effects become important.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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