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Density perturbations excited near a pulsating point source in a streaming plasma

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The leading term of the electron density perturbations around a harmonic point source moving with a superthermal velocity through a maxwellian plasma is studied for distances that tend to zero. Pronounced asymmetry is found, the field being concentrated mainly in a conical region downstream behind the source (the Cherenkov cone).

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  1. Geophysical Institute, Czechosl. Acad. Sci., Prague, Boční II 1401, 141 31, Praha 4, Czechoslovakia

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Fiala, V. Density perturbations excited near a pulsating point source in a streaming plasma. Czech J Phys 31, 1018–1023 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01598465

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