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Nonlinear periodic space-charge waves in plasma

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A solution is obtained in the form of coupled nonlinear periodic space-charge waves propagating in a magnetoactive plasma. The wave spectrum in the vicinity of the critical point, where the number of harmonics increases substantially, is found to fall with harmonic number as ∝ s −1/3. Periodic space-charge waves are invoked to explain the zebra pattern in the radio emission from solar flares.

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  1. Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 142190, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Kovalev, 2009, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 437–442.

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Kovalev, V.A. Nonlinear periodic space-charge waves in plasma. Plasma Phys. Rep. 35, 394–398 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X09050043

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