Multi-channel coupling of decay instability in three-dimensional low-beta plasma

Comişel, Horia; Narita, Yasuhito; Motschmann, Uwe

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-37-835-2019

Articles | Volume 37, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-37-835-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-37-835-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 37, issue 5

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20 Sep 2019

ANGEO Communicates |

| 20 Sep 2019

Multi-channel coupling of decay instability in three-dimensional low-beta plasma

Horia Comişel, Yasuhito Narita, and Uwe Motschmann

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RC1: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Apr 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Referee #1', Horia Comisel, 16 May 2019
  - RC2: 'Revision', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 May 2019
    - AC3: 'Reply to Referee #1', Horia Comisel, 05 Aug 2019
RC3: 'Comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Jul 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee #2', Horia Comisel, 05 Aug 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (13 Aug 2019) by Vincent Maget

AR by Horia Comisel on behalf of the Authors (14 Aug 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 Aug 2019) by Vincent Maget

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (24 Aug 2019)

ED: Publish as is (02 Sep 2019) by Vincent Maget

Short summary

Here we present a scenario that the decay of a field-aligned Alfvén wave can occur simultaneously at various angles to the mean magnetic field, generating a number of second-order fluctuations or waves (after the pump wave as the first-order fluctuation). We refer to the simultaneous decay as multi-channel couplings following the notion in scattering theory. Our goal is to study the hypothesis of the multi-channel coupling by running a three-dimensional hybrid plasma simulation.