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Alfvén Waves in Dusty Interstellar Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2016

N. F. Cramer  and
S. V. Vladimirov
N. F. Cramer
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Physics and Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, [email protected]
S. V. Vladimirov
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Physics and Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, [email protected]
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Abstract

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Dust particles in a plasma can be higWy charged, and can carry a proportion of the negative charge of the plasma. Even if this proportion is quite small, as in interstellar dusty clouds, it can have a large effect on hydromagnetic Alfvén waves propagating at frequencies well below the ion–cyclotron frequency. In particular, the right-hand circularly polarised mode experiences a cutoff due to the presence of the dust. We generalise previous work on Alfvén waves in dusty interstellar plasmas by considering the general dispersion relation for waves propagating at an arbitrary angle with respect to the magnetic field. Wave energy propagating at oblique angles to the magnetic field in an increasing density gradient can be very efficiently damped by the Alfvén resonance absorption process in a dusty plasma, and we consider this damping mechanism for waves in interstellar clouds.

Keywords

plasmasISM: cloudsdustMHD waves
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , 1997 , pp. 170 - 178
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1997

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