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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 615, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731710
关键词
plasmas; waves; instabilities; solar wind; ISM: supernova remnants
资金
- Belgian Science Policy Office (through Prodex/Cluster) [PEA 90316]
- Belgian Science Policy Office (through IAP Programme) [P7/08 CHARM]
Context. Compensated-current systems are established in response to hot ion beams in terrestrial foreshock regions, around supernova remnants, and in other space and astrophysical plasmas. Aims. We study a non-resonant reactive instability of Alfven waves propagating quasi-parallel to the background magnetic field B-0 in such systems. Methods. The instability is investigated analytically in the framework of kinetic theory applied to the hydrogen plasmas penetrated by hot proton beams. Results. The instability arises at parallel wavenumbers k(z) that are sufficiently large to demagnetize the beam ions, k(z)V(Tb)/omega(Bi) greater than or similar to 1 (here V-Tb is the beam thermal speed along B-0 and omega(Bi) is the ion-cyclotron frequency). The Alfven mode is then made unstable by the imbalance of perturbed currents carried by the magnetized background electrons and partially demagnetized beam ions. The destabilizing effects of the beam temperature and the temperature dependence of the instability threshold and growth rate are demonstrated for the first time. The beam temperature, density, and bulk speed are all destabilizing and can be combined in a single destabilizing factor ffb triggering the instability at alpha(b) > alpha(thr)(b), where the threshold value varies in a narrow range 2.43 <= alpha(thr)(b) <= 4.87. New analytical expressions for the instability growth rate and its boundary in the parameter space are obtained and can be directly compared with observations. Two applications to terrestrial foreshocks and foreshocks around supernova remnants are briefly discussed. In particular, our results suggest that the ions reflected by the shocks around supernova remnants can drive stronger instability than the cosmic rays.
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