Relation Between Laboratory and Space Plasmas: Proceedings of the International Workshop Held at Gakushi-Kaikan (University Alumni Association) Tokyo,

ISBN-13: 9789027712486 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 418 str.

Hiroshi Kikuchi; H. Kikuchi

Opis

Proceedings of the International Workshop held at Gakushi-Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan, April 14-15, 1980

Spis treści

— The Role of High-? Mirror-Cusp Space Plasma Concept in a New Fusion-Reactor Approach.- I. The Critical Velocity.- The Critical Ionization Velocity.- Viability of the Critical Ionization Velocity Concept in Selected Space Situations.- II. Beam Plasma Discharges and Interactions.- A Review of the Beam Plasma Discharge.- Laboratory Simulation of the Injection of Energetic Electron Beams into the Ionosphere — Ignition of the Beam Plasma Discharge.- Laboratory Experiments on Beam-Plasma Discharge.- Nonlinear Behavior of High Frequency Electric Field Just Before the Initiation of Beam Plasma Discharge.- Electron Beam Experiments in Space.- III. Double Layers and Shocks.- Formation of Double Layers.- Observations of Electrostatic Shocks and Associated Plasma Instabilities by the S3-3 Satellite.- Formation of Electrostatic Double Layers in a Plasma with Electron-Drift.- Laboratory Measurements of the Plasma Potential in the Presence of Strong Ion Cyclotron Turbulence.- Magnetic Field Line Reconnection Experiment.- Mechanisms for the Excitation of Ion Cyclotron Waves in Auroral Acceleration Region.- IV. Instabilities in the Equatorial and Auroral Electrojets.- On Plasma Instabilities in the High-Latitude Ionospheric E Region.- Laboratory Experiments Related to Plasma Instabilities in the Electrojets.- A 15-Min Period Geomagnetic Pulsation Ps 6 Excited by an Instability of Auroral Electrojets.- Magnetic Field Aligned Currents and the Structure of the Auroral Ionospher.- V. Turbulent and Anomalous Plasmas.- Power Law Spectrum of Relativistic Particles in Space and Possibilities of Its Laboratory Simulation.- Chasmas in the Laboratory and in Space.- Numerical Calculations on the Propagation of Microwaves in Highly Over-Dense Magnetized Plasmas.- The Nonlinear Theory of Current-Driven Instability of Lower-Hybrid Drift Oscillations and Magnetic Field Reconnection in the Magnetopause.- VI. Plasma Irregularities.- Instabilities in Current Layers.- Nonlinear Interaction of Electromagnetic Radiation with a Weakly-Magnetized Nonuniform Plasma.- Plasma Densities in the Thermal Magnetosphere Determined from Ion Cyclotron Whistlers.- Ray Trajectories and Wave Fronts of Radiated Electromagnetic Modes in an Inhomogeneous Magnetoplasma.- Drift Effect on the Electrostatic Landau Mode in a Maxwellian Plasma.- VII. Solar Plasma Phenomena.- Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Beam-Plasma Interaction for the Application to Solar Radio Burst.- A Model of Type I Solar Radio Bursts.- Nuclear Fusion Process in 3He-Rich Flares.- VIII. Active Experiments in Space Plasmas and Their Simulation in the Laboratory.- Space Experiments with Particle Accelerators: SEPAC — SEPAC Program for First Spacelab Mission.- Remarks about the Wave Observations during the Rocket Borne Electrons Injection into the Ionospheric Plasma.- EXOS-B/SIPLE Station VLF Wave-Particle Interaction Experiment.- Active Stimulation of the Auroral Plasma.- Summary.- Summary — Editor’s Note.- Index of Subjects.- Index of Names.