On resonant heating below the cyclotron frequency
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- 1 November 2001
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Plasmas
- Vol. 8 (11) , 4713-4716
Abstract
Resonant heating of particles by electrostatic and Alfvén waves propagating in a confining uniform magnetic field is examined. It is shown that, with a sufficiently large wave amplitude, significant perpendicular stochastic heating can be obtained with wave frequency at a fraction of the cyclotron frequency. This result may have relevance for the heating of ions in the solar corona, and is a generic phenomenon, independent of the type of wave considered.Keywords
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