SH31A-2400
Obliquely propagating electrostatic waves in a magnetized plasma for different types of anisotropic kappa distribution
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Muhammad Fraz Bashir1, Peter H Yoon2, G. Murtaza3, Darakhsan Aqeel4, Sumaira Javed4 and Madiha Zahra4, (1)COMSATS Institute of Information Techonolgy, Physics, Lahore, Pakistan, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, (4)Government College University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract:
By using the kinetic theory, the dispersion relation of obliquely propagating electrostatic waves are discussed for three types of kappa distribution function: 1) loss-cone-bi-kappa-Maxwellian distribution, 2) current carrying Bi-kappa-Maxwellian distribution and 3) product-bi-kappa distribution. The effects of kappa-index, loss-cone index, streaming velocity and the temperature anisotropy on the Harris instability is highlighted for their possible application to explain the banded emissions observed in the terrestrial magnetosphere and in the magnetospheres of other planets, e.g., Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and in Io's plasma torus.
