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Growth Rates of the Electrostatic Waves in Radio Zebra Models

Authors

BENÁČEK Jan KARLICKÝ Marian

Year of publication 2019
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Astrophysical Journal
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2bfc
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2bfc
Keywords instabilities; methods: analytical; methods: numerical; planets and satellites: individual (Jupiter); pulsars: individual (Crab Nebula pulsar); Sun: radio radiation
Description Zebras were observed not only in the solar radio emission but also in radio emissions of Jupiter and the Crab Nebula pulsar. In their models, growth rates of the electrostatic waves play an important role. Considering the plasma composed from the thermal background plasma and hot and rare component with the Dory-Guest-Harris distribution, we compute the growth rates. and dispersion branches of the electrostatic waves in the omega - k(perpendicular to) domain. We show complexity of the electrostatic wave branches in the upper-hybrid band. In order to compare the results, which we obtained using the kinetic theory and particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, we define and compute the integrated growth rate Gamma, where the "characteristic width" of dispersion branches was considered. We found a very good agreement between the integrated growth rates and those from PIC simulations. For maximal and minimal G we showed locations of dispersion branches in the omega - k(perpendicular to) domain. We found that G has a maximum when the dispersion branches not only cross the region with high growth rates., but when the dispersion branches in this region are sufficiently long and wide. We also mentioned the effects of changes in the background plasma and hot component temperatures.

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