Low-frequency plasma turbulence during solar wind-comet interaction (Q1822580)
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Low-frequency plasma turbulence during solar wind-comet interaction (English)
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1987
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The pick up cometary ion distributions are shown to excite Alfvénic mode instabilities, slow ion-acoustic mode instability and a lower hybrid instability during solar wind-comet interaction. The growth rates of all these instabilities become larger as the comet is approached. The lower hybrid instability is shown to account for the low-frequency 0-300 Hz electrostatic turbulence observed near comet Halley. The Alfvén modes can grow to large amplitudes and become modulationally unstable, in the presence of low-frequency density fluctuations, going over to envelope Alfvén solitons. A model consisting of a gas of Alfvén solitons is suggested to explain the hydromagnetic turbulence observed near comet Halley and comet Giacobini-Zinner.
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Alfvénic mode instabilities
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ion-acoustic mode instability
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lower hybrid instability
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solar wind-comet interaction
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electrostatic turbulence
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comet Halley
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low-frequency density fluctuations
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envelope Alfvén solitons
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hydromagnetic turbulence
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comet Giacobini-Zinner
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