Parametric Instability in Dark Molecular Clouds
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Parametric instability in dark molecular clouds
Received ; accepted – 2 – ABSTRACT The present work investigates the parametric instability of parallel propagating circularly polarized Alfvén (pump) waves in a weakly ionized molecular cloud. It is shown that the relative drift between the plasma particles gives rise to the Hall effect resulting in the modified pump wave characteristics. Although the linearized fluid equations with periodic c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/518118