Surface Waves along the Martian Ionopause

• Authors: P. Chmielewski , K. Murawski , N. Kumar
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We study the behaviour of surface waves propagating along the ionopause of the planet Mars and derive the onset criteria for unstable Kelvin-Helmholtz modes and negative energy waves at the Martian ionopause. Growth rate of unstable Kelvin-Helmholtz mode decreases with wavelength. The backward propagating waves became negative energy waves for the ionosheath velocity higher than critical velocity. It is found that short wavelength surface waves propagating along the Martian ionopause are less dispersive than long waves.

Keywords

EN

94.20.wh; 96.30.Gc

Discipline

• 94.20.wh: Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions
• 96.30.Gc: Mars

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 123
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 156-161

Dates

published

2013-01

received

2011-04-08

(unknown)

2012-05-25

Contributors

author

P. Chmielewski

• Group of Astrophysics, Institute of Physics, UMCS, E. Radziszewskiego 10, 20-033 Lublin, Poland

author

K. Murawski

• Group of Astrophysics, Institute of Physics, UMCS, E. Radziszewskiego 10, 20-033 Lublin, Poland

author

N. Kumar

• Department of Mathematics, M.M.H. College, Ghaziabad, UP, India

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.123.156