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PHYSICA SCRIPTA
Volume 98, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1402-4896/acad41
Keywords
dusty plasma; hall current instability; ionosphere; equatorial electrojet
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The effect of power-law dust size distribution and dust number density on the low frequency hall current instabilities in and above the equatorial electrojet altitudes has been studied. The analysis shows that a broad dust size distribution and high dust number density can significantly increase the growth rate and frequency of the instability in the electrojet region. However, these two dust parameters have a negligible effect on the instability above the electrojet region where ions become weakly magnetized.
The effect of power-law dust size distribution and dust number density on the low frequency hall current instabilities have been studied in and above the equatorial electrojet altitudes using a linear fluid model consisting of electrons, ions and dust particles. The dispersion relation includes electron and ion drift perpendicular to the equilibrium uniform electric and magnetic field, mass and pressure of the charged species and collision between charged and neutral particles. The effect of dust size variation and dust number density on the instability have been investigated by varying the dust-plasma frequency in the dispersion relation. It has been found that in the region of the electrojet altitudes the variation of dust size for the case of broad dust size distribution and dust number density can substantially increase the growth rate and frequency of the instability. However, above the electrojet region where ions become weakly magnetized, the above two dust parameters have a negligible effect on the instability.The present analysis is applicable to the dusty meteor trail plasma of the ionospheric E-region.
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