Preferential acceleration of $^3He$ by lower hybrid waves

Ramadurai, S and Thejappa, G (1986) Preferential acceleration of $^3He$ by lower hybrid waves. In: Advances in Space Research, 6 (6). pp. 281-284.

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Abstract

It is shown that Lower Hybrid Waves (LHW) can arise due to drift instabilities in the magnetized plasma of the lower solar corona. These LHW can preheat $^3He$ ions preferentially over $^4He$ ions and thus the former can be preferentially injected above the threshold energy for the subsequent second stage acceleration resulting in the enrichment of $^3He$. Since this mechanism holds good for any arbitrary ratio of Te/Ti (electron temperature/ion temperature), this can explain the class of $^3He$ rich events which do not possess all characteristics predicted by the other models postulated so far.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Advances in Space Research
Publisher:	Elsevier
Additional Information:	The Copyright belongs to Elsevier.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Joint Astronomy Programme
Date Deposited:	03 Jun 2006
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:29
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/7520

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