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Dispersion of electron Bernstein waves including weakly relativistic and electromagnetic effects. Part 1. Ordinary modes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

P. A. Robinson
P. A. Robinson
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School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Abstract

Ordinary solutions of the weakly relativistic, electromagnetic dispersion relation are investigated for waves propagating perpendicular to a uniform magnetic field in a Maxwellian plasma. Weakly relativistic resonance broadening, frequency downshift and damping are found to alter dramatically the dispersion predicted by the corresponding strictly non-relativistic (‘classical’) theory in the neighbourhood of harmonics of the cyclotron frequency Ωe. All classical resonances and cut-offs are removed except the cut-off at the plasma frequency ωp. At frequencies above ωp the infinite family of classically predicted modes is replaced by a single weakly damped mode whose dispersion differs only slightly from that predicted by cold plasma theory. No weakly damped modes exist in the range of harmonics s satisfying (ωp/Ωe)⅔/8 ≲ S < Ωp/Ωe, however, one such mode is located immediately below each harmonic for s ≲ (ωp/Ωe)⅔/8. A companion paper investigates extraordinary solutions of the dispersion relation.

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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , June 1987 , pp. 435 - 447
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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