Study of Whistler Waves in Nonthermal Magnetized Plasma

Abstract

In this study, we used the kinetic theory of plasmas to analyse Whistler waves propagating parallel to the background magnetic eld with electron temperature anisotropy. The Bi-Maxwellian and Cairns distributions were used to determine the perturbed distribution function. It was used to derive a dispersion relation for Oblique whistler waves. These distributions have been found to greatly alter the instability condition for the growth of oblique whistler instability. The dispersion characteristics and growth rate were also compared to the Maxwellian distribution