Open AccessThe analysis of 6‐component measurements of a random electromagnetic wave field in a magnetoplasma – I. The direct problem
Author(s) -
Storey L. R. O.,
Lefeuvre F.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.302
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1365-246X
pISSN - 0016-8009
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-246x.1979.tb00163.x
Subject(s) - electromagnetic field , electromagnetic radiation , physics , field (mathematics) , random field , statistical physics , classical mechanics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , quantum mechanics , statistics , pure mathematics
Summary This is the first of a series of papers, the general subject of which is how to interpret a set of simultaneous measurements of the three electric and three magnetic components of a random electromagnetic wave field in a magnetoplasma. The point at which the measurements are made is assumed to be stationary with respect to the plasma. In this first paper, the following problems are treated: how to define, within the framework of classical electrodynamics, a distribution function that characterizes the statistics of a linear random electromagnetic wave field in a lossless magnetoplasma; the direct problem of predicting the statistical properties of measurements of the six components of a field of this type, when the distribution function is known.