Properties of Whistler Waves in Warm Electron Plasmas

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa906f

	Properties of Whistler Waves in Warm Electron Plasmas
	Zhao, Jinsong
刊名	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
	2017
卷号	850 期号:1 页码:13
DOI	10.3847/1538-4357/aa906f
英文摘要	Dispersion relation and electromagnetic properties of obliquely propagating whistler waves are investigated on the basis of a warm electron fluid model. The magnetic field of whistler waves is nearly circularly polarized with respect to the wave vector in a plasma where the electron plasma frequency Omega(pe) is much larger than the electron cyclotron frequency Omega(ce), and the magnetic field polarization can become elliptical, or even linear, polarization as Omega(pe) less than or similar to Omega(ce). In the plasmas with Omega(pe) < Omega(ce), the resonant frequency is about Omega(ce) cos theta, which is different from Omega(pe) cos theta predicted by the cold electron fluid model. Near the resonant frequency, the whistler wave approximates a quasi-magnetostatic mode, not a quasi-electrostatic mode in the cold electron plasmas. Moreover, the detailed mode properties are given in Earth's magnetosphere, the solar active region, and Jupiter's polar cap. Furthermore, the study proposes that the ratio of the electrostatic to electromagnetic component of the electric field can be used to distinguish the whistler mode from the Z-mode in the frequency range of Omega(pe) < omega < Omega(ce) in the solar active region and Jupiter's polar cap.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://libir.pmo.ac.cn/handle/332002/17897]
专题	中国科学院紫金山天文台
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhao, Jinsong. Properties of Whistler Waves in Warm Electron Plasmas[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,2017,850(1):13.
APA	Zhao, Jinsong.(2017).Properties of Whistler Waves in Warm Electron Plasmas.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,850(1),13.
MLA	Zhao, Jinsong."Properties of Whistler Waves in Warm Electron Plasmas".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 850.1(2017):13.