Title :
Temperature-anisotropy instability thresholds in the solar wind
Author :
Michno, Michal ; Schlickeiser, Reinhard
Author_Institution :
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Lehrstuhl IV: Weltraum- und Astrophysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780, Germany
Abstract :
Summary form only given. The explanation of the relaxation of cosmic collision-poor plasmas with velocity-anisotropic distribution functions (VADs) and their near energy density equipartition with electromagnetic plasma turbulence are two challenging fundamental problems of plasma astrophysics.
Keywords :
Astrophysics; Damping; Distribution functions; Electromagnetics; Plasmas; Protons; Space vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2012 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2127-4
Electronic_ISBN :
0730-9244
DOI :
10.1109/PLASMA.2012.6383521
