On the possibility of dust acoustic waves over sunlit lunar surface

2021 ◽  
Vol 503 (3) ◽  
pp. 3965-3974 ◽  
Author(s):  
S K Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Phase Speed ◽  
Wave Dispersion ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Charged Dust ◽  
Charge Fluctuation ◽  
Dynamical Equations ◽  
Ultralow Frequency ◽  
Dust Charge ◽  
Dust Acoustic

ABSTRACT The photoelectron sheath and floating fine positively charged dust particles constitute two-component dusty plasma in the sunlit lunar regolith’s vicinity. By including the charge fluctuation into photoelectron–dust dynamics, the lunar exospheric plasma is proposed to support the propagation of long-wavelength dust acoustic (DA) modes. Using the standard approach based on the dynamical equations for continuity, momentum, plasma potential, and dust charging along with Fowler's treatment of photoemission and non-Maxwellian nature of the sheath photoelectrons, the wave dispersion is derived. The dust charge variation modifies the usual DA wave dispersion and excites the ultralow frequency modes that propagate with sufficiently low phase speed. Such ultralow frequency modes are predicted as pronounced for smaller values of dust charge and sheath potential. The DA wave dispersion is also depicted as sensitive to the photoelectrons’ energy distribution within the sheath. The quantitative estimates suggest that the nominal exospheric plasma may exhibit DA waves propagating with frequencies of the order of unity.

Dust acoustic and drift waves in a non-Maxwellian dusty plasma with dust charge fluctuation

2015 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Zakir ◽  
Q. Haque ◽  
N. Imtiaz ◽  
A. Qamar
Keyword(s):  
Dusty Plasma ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Drift Waves ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Charge Fluctuation ◽  
Plasma Parameters ◽  
Dust Charge ◽  
Electrons And Ions ◽  
Dust Acoustic ◽  
Dust Charge Fluctuation

The properties of dust acoustic and drift waves are investigated in a charge varying magnetized dusty plasma. The plasma is composed of non-thermal electrons and ions with dynamic dust particles. The mathematical expression which describes the dust charge fluctuation is obtained using ${\it\kappa}$-distribution for both the electrons and ions. A dispersion relation is derived and analysed numerically by choosing space plasma parameters. It is found that the inclusion of variable dust charge along with the non-thermal effects of electrons and ions significantly affect linear/nonlinear properties of the dust acoustic and dust drift waves. The effects of different physical parameters including spectral index (${\it\kappa}$), dust charge number ($Z_{d}$), electron density ($n_{e}$) and ion temperature ($T_{i}$) on the wave dispersion and instability are presented. It is found that the presence of the non-thermal electron and ion populations reduce the growth rate of the instability which arises due to the dust charging effect. In addition, the nonlinear vortex solutions are also obtained. For illustration, the results are analysed by using the dusty plasma parameters of Saturn’s magnetosphere.

Effects of vortex-like (trapped) electron distribution on non-linear dust-acoustic waves with positive dust charge fluctuation

2010 ◽  
Vol 76 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 477-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. AMIN ◽  
SANJIT K. PAUL ◽  
GURUDAS MANDAL ◽  
A. A. MAMUN
Keyword(s):  
Dusty Plasma ◽  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Electron Distribution ◽  
Reductive Perturbation Method ◽  
Nonlinear Propagation ◽  
Charge Fluctuation ◽  
Dust Charge ◽  
Dust Acoustic ◽  
Dust Grain ◽  
Trapped Electron

AbstractThe nonlinear propagation of dust-acoustic (DA) waves in a dusty plasma consisting of Boltzmann-distributed ions, vortex-like distributed electrons and mobile charge fluctuating positive dust has been investigated by employing the reductive perturbation method. The effects of dust grain charge fluctuation and the vortex-like electron distribution are found to modify the properties of the DA solitary waves significantly. The implications of these results for some space and astrophysical dusty plasma systems are briefly mentioned.

scholarly journals A new method of inferring the size, number density, and charge of mesospheric dust from its in situ collection by the DUSTY probe

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1673-1683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ove Havnes ◽  
Tarjei Antonsen ◽  
Gerd Baumgarten ◽  
Thomas W. Hartquist ◽  
Alexander Biebricher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Method ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Bottom Plate ◽  
Charged Dust ◽  
Fundamental Parameters ◽  
Dust Charge ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
June July ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. We present a new method of analyzing measurements of mesospheric dust made with DUSTY rocket-borne Faraday cup probes. It can yield the variation in fundamental dust parameters through a mesospheric cloud with an altitude resolution down to 10 cm or less if plasma probes give the plasma density variations with similar height resolution. A DUSTY probe was the first probe that unambiguously detected charged dust and aerosol particles in the Earth's mesosphere. DUSTY excluded the ambient plasma by various biased grids, which however allowed dust particles with radii above a few nanometers to enter, and it measured the flux of charged dust particles. The flux measurements directly yielded the total ambient dust charge density. We extend the analysis of DUSTY data by using the impact currents on its main grid and the bottom plate as before, together with a dust charging model and a secondary charge production model, to allow the determination of fundamental parameters, such as dust radius, charge number, and total dust density. We demonstrate the utility of the new analysis technique by considering observations made with the DUSTY probes during the MAXIDUSTY rocket campaign in June–July 2016 and comparing the results with those of other instruments (lidar and photometer) also used in the campaign. In the present version we have used monodisperse dust size distributions.

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