Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1763176 Advances in Space Research 2016 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

The techniques of investigation of low-frequency instabilities of the current sheet in quasi-linear approximation with due regard to the effect of plasma polarization is described. This makes it possible to study the mechanism of the reverse impact of the developing instability modes of nonelectroneutral current sheet on the background distribution function.Evolution equations of the equilibrium distribution function of the plasma current sheet and the perturbation of the electromagnetic field are derived. Algorithms for solution of evolution equations are developed. A dispersion curve for the plasma wave with damping decrement propagating along the magnetic field is derived.

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