The analysis of 6-component measurements of a random electromagnetic wave field in a magnetoplasma. I : The direct problem

L.R.O. Storey (1) , François Lefeuvre (1, 2)

1 CRPE - Centre de recherches en physique de l'environnement terrestre et planétaire
2 LPCE - Laboratoire de physique et chimie de l'environnement

This is the first of a series of papers, the general subject of which is how to interpret a set of simultaneous measu- rements of the three electric and three magnetic components of a random electromagnetic wave field in a magnetoplasma. The point at which the measurements are made is assumed to be stationary with respect to the plasma. In this first paper, the following problems are treated : how to define, within the framework of classical electrodynamics, a distribution function that characterizes the statistics of a linear random electromagnetic wave field in a lossless magnetoplasma the direct problem of predicting the statistical properties of measurements of the six components of a field of this type, when the distribution function is known.

Domaines: Sciences de la Terre; Planète et Univers [physics]

L.R.O. Storey, François Lefeuvre. The analysis of 6-component measurements of a random electromagnetic wave field in a magnetoplasma. I : The direct problem. [Research Report] Note technique CRPE n° 12, Centre de recherches en physique de l'environnement terrestre et planétaire (CRPE). 1975, 36 p. ⟨hal-02191369⟩