Publication details
Temperature dependent growth rates of the upper-hybrid waves and solar radio zebra patterns
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
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| Citation | |
| Web | ArXiv |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629717 |
| Field | Astronomy and astrophysics |
| Keywords | Sun radio radiation; instabilities; methods analytical |
| Description | We found that the growth-rate maxima of the upper-hybrid waves for non-zero temperatures of both the hot and background plasma are shifted towards lower frequencies comparing to the zero temperature case. This shift increases with an increase of the harmonic number $s$ of the electron cyclotron frequency and temperatures of both hot and background plasma components. We show how this shift changes values of the magnetic field strength estimated from observed zebras. We confirmed that for a relatively low hot electron temperature, the dependence of growth rate vs. both the ratio of the electron plasma and electron cyclotron frequencies expresses distinct peaks, and by increasing this temperature these peaks become smoothed. We found that in some cases, the values of wave number vector components for the upper-hybrid wave for the maximal growth rate strongly deviate from their analytical estimations. We confirmed the validity of the assumptions used when deriving model equations. |