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The Strange Physics Of Low Frequency Mirror Mode Turbulence In The High Temperature Plasma Of The Magnetosheath, R. A. Treumann, C. H. Jaroschek, O. D. Constantinescu, R. Nakamura Dec 2004

The Strange Physics Of Low Frequency Mirror Mode Turbulence In The High Temperature Plasma Of The Magnetosheath, R. A. Treumann, C. H. Jaroschek, O. D. Constantinescu, R. Nakamura

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Mirror mode turbulence is the lowest frequency perpendicular magnetic excitation in magnetized plasma proposed already about half a century ago by Rudakov and Sagdeev (1958) and Chandrasekhar et al. (1958) from fluid theory. Its experimental verification required a relatively long time. It was early recognized that mirror modes for being excited require a transverse pressure (or temperature) anisotropy. In principle mirror modes are some version of slow mode waves. Fluid theory, however, does not give a correct physical picture of the mirror mode. The linear infinitesimally small amplitude physics is described correctly only by including the full kinetic theory and …


Weather And Climate, Rob Snyder Jan 2004

Weather And Climate, Rob Snyder

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