Effect of Plasma-β on Magnetosonic Solitons in Earth’s Magnetosphere

S. Singla, M. Kaur, G. Slathia, N. S. Saini

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Abstract

Abstract: A theoretical investigation is made to study the properties of dust-magnetosonic (DMS) solitons in a magnetized electron-depleted dusty plasma that contains opposite polarity warm dust grains, and inertial ions. By using reductive perturbation technique (RPT), the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation is derived. There is the formation of only positive potential DMS solitons in the high plasma-β limit. The effects of plasma parameter, viz., plasma-β on the characteristics of DMS solitons are also studied numerically. The KdV equation is converted into planar dynamical systems using the Galilean transformation. Small-amplitude Sagdeev’s pseudopotential curve and a phase portrait of the dynamical system have been used to characterize it. Periodic waves in homoclinic and periodic orbits in phase pictures are also examined in further relation to various plasma properties. The findings of the present investigation may be helpful in describing the characteristics of various nonlinear excitations in Earth’s magnetosphere.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)114-119
Number of pages6
JournalPlasma Physics Reports
Volume49
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2023
Externally publishedYes

Funding

Authors gratefully acknowledge the support for this research work from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi under DST-SERB project no. CRG/2019/003988.

FundersFunder number
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India

    Keywords

    • Sagdeev’s pseudopotential
    • dust acoustic
    • magnetosonic
    • solitons

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