Potential plasma instabilities for substorm expansion onsets

ATY Lui - Space Science Reviews, 2004 - Springer
Abstract Space plasmas present intriguing and challenging puzzles to the space community.
Energy accessible to excite instabilities exists in a variety of forms, particularly for the …

[HTML][HTML] Electrostatic solitary structures in space plasmas: Soliton perspective

GS Lakhina, S Singh, R Rubia, S Devanandhan - Plasma, 2021 - mdpi.com
Occurrence of electrostatic solitary waves (ESWs) is ubiquitous in space plasmas, eg, solar
wind, Lunar wake and the planetary magnetospheres. Several theoretical models have …

Cosmic dusty plasmas via a (3+ 1)-dimensional generalized variable-coefficient Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-Burgers-type equation: auto-Bäcklund transformations …

XY Gao, YJ Guo, WR Shan - Waves in random and complex media, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Cosmic plasmas are considered as the most abundant form of ordinary matter in the
Universe while observations of the cosmic dust in different regions provide an insight into …

Generation of electron-acoustic waves in the magnetosphere

SV Singh, GS Lakhina - Planetary and Space Science, 2001 - Elsevier
Generation of electron-acoustic waves (EAWs) is examined in an unmagnetized, four-
component plasma consisting of stationary cold and hot Maxwellian electrons, drifting …

Rapid intensification and propagation of the dayside aurora: Large scale interplanetary pressure pulses (fast shocks)

X Zhou, BT Tsurutani - Geophysical Research Letters, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
We present two cases of abrupt dayside auroral brightenings and very fast auroral
propagation using the POLAR UV imaging data. The brightenings occur first at noon and …

Solitary potential structures associated with ion and electron beams near 1RE altitude

SR Bounds, RF Pfaff, SF Knowlton… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Small‐scale solitary electric potential structures are commonly observed on auroral field
lines with the Polar Electric Field Instrument (EFI). This study focuses on observations of …

Ion-and electron-acoustic solitons in two-electron temperature space plasmas

GS Lakhina, AP Kakad, SV Singh, F Verheest - Physics of Plasmas, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Properties of ion-and electron-acoustic solitons are investigated in an unmagnetized
multicomponent plasma system consisting of cold and hot electrons and hot ions using the …

Electron acoustic solitary waves with non-thermal distribution of electrons

SV Singh, GS Lakhina - Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 2004 - npg.copernicus.org
Electron-acoustic solitary waves are studied in an unmagnetized plasma consisting of non-
thermally distributed electrons, fluid cold electrons and ions. The Sagdeev pseudo-potential …

Observation of electrostatic solitary waves associated with reconnection on the dayside magnetopause boundary

H Matsumoto, XH Deng, H Kojima… - Geophysical Research …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
When a Coronal Mass Ejection struck the Earth on January 10, 1997, Electrostatic Solitary
Waves (ESW) and Amplitude Modulated Electrostatic Waves (AMEW) were detected as …

Shock aurora: FAST and DMSP observations

XY Zhou, RJ Strangeway, PC Anderson… - Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Global signatures of the aurora caused by interplanetary shocks/pressure pulses have been
studied in recent years using ultraviolet imager data from polar orbiting spacecraft. The …