The electron-acoustic mode in a plasma with hot suprathermal and cool Maxwellian electrons
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Plasmas
- Vol. 6 (1), 44-49
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.873256
Abstract
The electron-acoustic wave, in a plasma with hot suprathermal, kappa-distributed electrons and cool, Maxwellian electrons, is investigated. This model is a generalization of those that have been investigated previously, and through its parametrization by κ, can be reduced to many previous models of the stable wave. It is found that the hot suprathermal electrons significantly increase the Landau damping of the wave at small wave numbers, i.e., in its acoustic regime. Results from a survey of parameter space, which help to identify parameters for which the stable mode will be only weakly Landau damped, are presented. The dependence of the Landau damping on the fraction of suprathermal electrons, which is related to the index, κ, of the hot electron distribution, is investigated in detail.Keywords
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