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Longitudinal fluctuations in a nonuniform collisional plasma with nonequilibrium particle distributions

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The amplitudes of high-frequency longitudinal fluctuations excited by a nonequilibrium source in a nonuniform plasma are calculated. The results obtained are applicable to arbitrary nonequilibrium distributions of plasma particles in the absence of parametric instabilities. The spectra of probing waves scattered by fluctuations in a linear ionospheric plasma layer under conditions typical of experiments on incoherent radio wave scattering are found. The effects of electron-ion collisions and electron temperature anisotropy on the scattering intensity are demonstrated.

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  1. Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 142090, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Puchkov, 2009, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 263–273.

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Puchkov, V.A. Longitudinal fluctuations in a nonuniform collisional plasma with nonequilibrium particle distributions. Plasma Phys. Rep. 35, 234–243 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X09030064

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