Open AccessIon acoustic instability triggered by finite amplitude polarized waves in the solar wind
Author(s) -
Gomberoff L.,
Hoyos J.,
Brinca A. L.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: space physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.67
H-Index - 298
eISSN - 2156-2202
pISSN - 0148-0227
DOI - 10.1029/2004ja010810
Subject(s) - physics , amplitude , ion acoustic wave , solar wind , acoustic wave , ion , computational physics , magnetic field , instability , parametric statistics , geophysics , acoustics , mechanics , optics , quantum mechanics , statistics , mathematics
It is shown that ion‐acoustic waves propagating along an external magnetic field and generated by parametric decays of circularly polarized finite amplitude waves have the properties of ion‐acoustic waves observed in the solar wind.