How electron two-stream instability drives cyclic Langmuir collapse and continuous coherent emission

Che, Haihong; Goldstein, Melvyn L.; Diamond, Patrick H.; Sagdeev, Roald Z.

doi:10.1073/pnas.1614055114

Title: How electron two-stream instability drives cyclic Langmuir collapse and continuous coherent emission

Journal Article · Mon Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614055114· OSTI ID:1341768

^[1]; Goldstein, Melvyn L. ^[2]; Diamond, Patrick H. ^[3]; Sagdeev, Roald Z. ^[4]

Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742,, Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771,
Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771,
Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093,
Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Continuous plasma coherent emission is maintained by repetitive Langmuir collapse driven by the nonlinear evolution of a strong electron two-stream instability. The Langmuir waves are modulated by solitary waves in the linear stage and electrostatic whistler waves in the nonlinear stage. Modulational instability leads to Langmuir collapse and electron heating that fills in cavitons. The high pressure is released via excitation of a short-wavelength ion acoustic mode that is damped by electrons and reexcites small-scale Langmuir waves; this process closes a feedback loop that maintains the continuous coherent emission.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-04ER54738; NNG04EB99C

OSTI ID:: 1341768

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1465122

Journal Information:: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 114 Journal Issue: 7; ISSN 0027-8424

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