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For an unmagnetized multicomponent dusty plasma, the effects of non-thermal electron distribution, ion temperature and two oppositely charged dust grains are incorporated in the study of arbitrary amplitude solitary waves. An energy-like integral equation involving Sagdeev potential is derived, and the existence, formation and basic properties of solitons are studied. It is also found a definite interval for the Mach number for which solitary waves exist and depends sensitively upon the population of fast or non-thermal electrons present. Our results should be useful to understand the properties of localized electrostatic disturbances that may occur in space dusty plasma.
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Alinejad, H. Solitary waves in a dusty plasma with negatively (positively) charged dust grains and non-thermal electrons. Astrophys Space Sci 332, 263–268 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-010-0506-8
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