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1984
Rankin, Robert, Gardner, L. R. T., Barr, H. C., Boyd, T. J. M.
The effects of a magnetic field on the Raman and two‐plasmon decay instabilities are studied in the region of the quarter‐critical density of laser produced plasmas where both are coincident. Two‐plasmon decay of the incident extraordinary wave into two upper‐hybrid waves may now occur in the...
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2015
Marchand, Richard, Paral, Jan, Gharaee, Hossna, Rankin, Robert
An approximate model derived by Hutchinson (2008a), describing the interaction between the solar wind and the Moon, is applied to describe plasma in the lunar wake. The model accounts for plasma entering the wake region from two tangent points around the Moon. Cylindrical geometry is assumed,...
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Primary and secondary compressible Kelvin‐Helmholtz surface wave instabilities on the Earth's magnetopause
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Turkakin, Hava, Rankin, Robert, Mann, Ian R.
Primary and secondary Kelvin-Helmholtz surface wave modes on the Earth's magnetopause are studied within the framework of warm plasma ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) across an infinitely thin magnetopause tangential discontinuity (TD). With the increase of background flow velocity, a...
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Precipitation and nonlinear effects in geomagnetic field line resonancesournal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 108(A4), [pp
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Tikhonchuk, V. T., Prakash, M., Rankin, Robert
The structure of auroral arcs sustained by field line resonances (FLRs) is determined using a model that describes the interplay between ionospheric feedback, nonlinear, and dispersive effects in a curvilinear geomagnetic topology. The model includes modulation of Pedersen conductance by hundreds...
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1995
Tikhonchuk, Vladimir T., Frycz, P., Rankin, Robert, Samson, John C.
Compressional Alfvén waves in the terrestrial magnetospheric cavity constitute a discrete spectrum of global modes which can resonate with specific components of the continuum spectrum of shear Alfvén wave (SAW) field line resonant frequencies. We investigate the effect of the ponderomotive force...
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1999
Tikhonchuk, Vladimir T., Rankin, Robert, Samson, John C.
Existing theories do not explain large parallel electric fields that are associated with keV electron precipitation in auroral arcs. The MHD electron response results in an electrical conductivity in the low altitude magnetosphere that is two orders of magnitude greater than is required. We...
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Origin of the interhemispheric potential mismatch of merging cells for interplanetary magnetic field BY‐dominated periods
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Kabin, Konstantin, Rankin, Robert, Gombosi, Tamas I., Sofko, George J., Ridley, Aaron J., Watanabe, Masakazu, Clauer, C. Robert
When the dawn-to-dusk component of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF B-Y) is dominant, ionospheric convection exhibits a basic two-cell pattern with significant dawn-dusk and interhemispheric asymmetries. For IMF B-Y > 0 the duskside merging cell potential in the Northern Hemisphere is much...
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Open‐closed field line boundary position: A parametric study using an MHD modelournal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 109(A5), [pp
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De Zeeuw, Darren L., Clauer, C. Robert, Kabin, Konstantin, Gombosi, Tamas I., Rostoker, Gordon, Rankin, Robert, Rae, I. Johnathan, Marchand, Richard, Ridley, Aaron J.
In this paper we investigate the effect of changes in the interplanetary magnetic field ( IMF), solar wind dynamic pressure, and dipole tilt angle on the position of the ionospheric projection of the open-closed field line boundary (OCB) in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model. We carry out a large...
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Open‐closed field line boundary position: A parametric study using an MHD modelournal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 109(A5), [pp
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Clauer, C. Robert, Rostoker, G., Kabin, Konstantin, Gombosi, Tamas I., DeZeeuw, Darren L., Rankin, Robert, Rae, I. Jonathan, Marchand, Richard, Ridley, Aaron J.
In this paper we investigate the effect of changes in the interplanetary magnetic field ( IMF), solar wind dynamic pressure, and dipole tilt angle on the position of the ionospheric projection of the open-closed field line boundary (OCB) in a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model. We carry out a large...
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1998
Rankin, Robert, Tikhonchuk, V. T.
We describe nonlinear resonance absorption of compressional Alfven waves in a model magnetosphere. It is shown that the ponderomotive force of excited standing shear Alfven waves can lead to nonlinear saturation and spatial structuring of field line resonances and that in low-beta plasmas...