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The effect of secondary electron emission on dust acoustic wave (DA) propagation has been investigated based on orbit motion limited theory of dust grain charging. The emitted secondaries are assumed to have the same temperature as that of the ambient plasma electrons so that the plasma effectively consists of three components: the ions, electrons, and the variable charge dusts. Together with the effect of secondary emission, the effect of ion and electron capture and ionization of neutral atoms and recombination have been included in the ion and electron fluid equations. Small amplitude perturbation is considered about a charge neutral steady state. It is seen that if the dust charge is positive there may occur under certain conditions zero frequency exponentially growing perturbation about the equilibrium. The possibility of the occurrence of such purely growing mode in a dusty plasma was not noted earlier. The frequency and damping decrement of DA waves in dusty plasmas with negatively charged dust and also of DA waves with positively charged dust, when they exist, are determined. Comparisons with corresponding results of DA waves in the absence of secondary emission are exhibited graphically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The exact Sagdeev's pseudopotential is derived thr electron-acoustic waves in a two electron temperature plasma ("cold" and "hot" electrons) in the presence of relativistic electron beam plasma using a vortex-like distribution for trapped electrons. It is found that the relativistic effect restricts the region of existence for solitary waves. It is also seen that different ordering in 4., the electric potential, yields different solitary wave solutions. It is also observed that a double layer solution exists even if one keeps terms up to order Φ&frac52; [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The electron-acoustic instability in a magnetized plasma having three electron components, one of which is a field-aligned beam of intermediate temperature, is investigated. When the plasma frequency of the cool electrons exceeds the electron gyrofrequency, the electron-acoustic instability "bifurcates" at sufficiently large propagation angles with respect to the magnetic field to yield an obliquely propagating, low-frequency electron-acoustic instability and a higher frequency cyclotron-sound instability. Each of these instabilities retains certain wave features of its progenitor, the quasiparallel electron-acoustic instability, but displays also new magnetic qualities through its dependence on the electron gyrofrequency. The obliquely propagating electron-acoustic instability requires a lower threshold beam speed for its excitation than does the cyclotron-sound instability, and for low to intermediate beam speeds has the higher maximum growth rate. When the plasma is sufficiently strongly magnetized that the plasma frequency of the cool electrons is less than the electron gyrofrequency, the only instability in the electron-acoustic frequency range is the strongly magnetized electron-acoustic instability. Its growth rate and real frequency exhibit a monotonic decrease with wave propagation angle and it grows at small to intermediate wave numbers where its parallel phase speed is approximately constant. The relevance of the results to the interpretation of cusp auroral hiss and auroral broadband electrostatic noise is briefly discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]