Space Plasma Group

 

 Publications since 1985

 

 

 

 [1]          Tsurutani, B.T., G. Lakhina, E.J. Smith, B. Buti, S.L. Moses, F.V. Coroniti, A.L.Brinca,

               J. Slavin, and R.D. Zwickl

                “Mirror mode structures and ELF plasma waves in the Giacobini-Zinner magnetosheath”

                Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 6, 229, 1999.

 

[2]           Brinca, A.L., U. Motschmann, and F.J. Romeiras

                “On the dispersion of two coexisting nongyrotropic ion species”

                Ann. Geophys., 17, 1134, 1999.

 

[3]           U. Motschmann, K. H. Glassmeier, and A.L. Brinca

                “Nongyrotropic particle distributions in space plasmas”

                Ann. Geophys., 17, 613, 1999.

 

[4]           Romeiras, F.J., and A.L. Brinca

                “On the stability of  perpendicular electrostatic modes in stationary nongyrotropic

plasmas”

                J. Geophys. Res., 104, 12407, 1999.

 

[5]           Brinca, A.L.

                “Stability of stationary and time-varying nongyrotropic particle distributions”

                Ann. Geophys., 17,  623, 1999.

 

[6]           Brinca, A.L., Y. Omura, and H. Matsumoto

                “Stability of perpendicular propagation in time-varying nongyrotropic plasmas:

Simulations”

                J. Geophys. Res., 103, 29493, 1998.

 

[7]           Brinca, A.L.,  and F.J. Romeiras

                “On the stability of stationary nongyrotropic distribution functions:

 Coupling and purely growing waves”

                J. Geophys. Res., 103, 9275, 1998.

 

[8]           Brinca, A.L.

                “Generation and nonlinear evolution of cometary waves”

                in Nonlinear Waves and Chaos in Space Plasmas (Eds. T. Hada and H. Matsumoto),

Ch. 2, Terra Sc. Publ. Co., Tokyo, 1997.

 

[9]           Brinca, A.L.

                “Observation and interpretation of cometary low frequency waves”

                Surveys in Geophysics, 17, 1, 1996.

 

[10]         Borda  de Água, L., Y. Omura, H. Matsumoto, and A.L. Brinca

                “Competing processes of plasma wave instabilities driven by an  anisotropic

electron beam: Linear results and 2-D particle simulations”

                J. Geophys. Res., 101, 15475, 1996.

 

[11]         Brinca, A.L.

                “On the stability of nongyrotropic ion populations” (in Portuguese)

                Técnica, n.2, 41, 1995.

 

 

 

 

[12]         Romeiras, F.J.

                “A note on integrable two-degrees-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems with

                 a second integral quartic in the momenta”

                J. Phys. A: Mathematical and General, 28, 5633, 1995.

 

[13]         Romeiras, F.J.

                “Separability and Lax pairs for the two-dimensional Hamiltonian system

                 with a quartic potential ”

                J. Math. Phys., 36, 3559, 1995.

 

[14]         Brinca, A.L.

                “Geoplasma” (in Portuguese)

                Colóquio/Ciências, 14, 3, 1994.

 

[15]         Romeiras, F.J.

                “Double three-wave interaction of four waves: Lax representations and exact solutions”

                J. Math. Phys., 35, 4757, 1994.

 

[16]         Brinca, A.L., Y. Omura, and H. Matsumoto

                “Linear coupling effects originated in electron nongyrotropy”

                J. Geophys. Res., 98, 21071, 1993.

 

[17]         Brinca, A.L., L. Borda  de Água, and D. Winske

                “On the stability of nongyrotropic ion populations: A first (analytic and

simulation) assessment”

                J. Geophys. Res., 98, 7549, 1993.

 

[18]         Brinca, A.L., L. Borda  de Água, and D. Winske

                “Nongyrotropy as a source of instability and mode coupling”

                Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 2445, 1992.

 

[19]         Brinca, A.L.

                “Nongyrotropy in space plasmas”

                Trends in Geophys. Res., 1, 251, 1992.

 

[20]         Romeiras, F.J., C. Grebogi, E. Ott, and W.P. Dayawansa

                “Controlling chaotic dynamical systems”

                Physica D, 58, 165, 1992.

 

[21]         Brinca, A.L.

                “Cometary linear instabilities: From profusion to perspective”

                in Cometary Plasma Processes (Ed. A. Johnstone) ,

               Ch. 20, AGU Geophysical Monograph, Washington, D.C., 1991.

 

[22]         Brinca, A.L.

                “On the electromagnetic stability of isotropic populations”

                J. Geophys. Res., 95, 221, 1990.

 

[23]         Brinca, A.L., N. Sckopke, and G. Paschmann

                “Wave excitation downstream of the low-b, quasi-perpendicular bow shock”

                J. Geophys. Res., 95, 6331, 1990.

 

[24]         Romeiras, F.J., C. Grebogi, and E. Ott

                “Multifractal properties of snapshot attractors of random maps”

                Physical Review A, 41, 784, 1990.

 

[25]         Sckopke, N., G. Paschmann, A.L. Brinca, C.W. Carlson, and H. Luehr

                “Ion thermalization in quasi-perpendicular shocks involving reflected ions”

                J. Geophys. Res., 95, 6337, 1990.

 

[26]         Tsurutani, B.T., E.J. Smith, H. Matsumoto, A.L. Brinca, and N. Omidi

                “Highly nonlinear magnetic pulses at comet Giacobini-Zinner”

                Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 757, 1990.

 

[27]         Tsurutani, B.T., E.J. Smith, B. Buti, H. Matsumoto, and A.L. Brinca

                “Discrete phase changes within nonlinear steepened magnetosonic waves:

Comet Giacobini-Zinner”

                Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 1817, 1990.

 

 [28]        Brinca, A.L., and B.T. Tsurutani

                “The oblique behavior of low-frequency electromagnetic waves excited by

newborn cometary ions”

                J. Geophys. Res., 94, 3, 1989.

 

[29]         Brinca, A.L., B.T. Tsurutani, and F.L. Scarf

                “Local generation of electrostatic bursts at comet Giacobini-Zinner:

Modulation by steepened magnetosonic waves”

                J. Geophys. Res., 94, 60, 1989.

 

[30]         Brinca, A.L., and B.T. Tsurutani

                “On the excitation of cyclotron harmonic waves by newborn heavy ions”

                J. Geophys. Res., 94, 5467, 1989.

 

[31]         Brinca, A.L., and B.T. Tsurutani

                “Influence of multiple ion species on low frequency electromagnetic wave instabilities”

                J. Geophys. Res., 94, 13565, 1989.

 

[32]         Romeiras, F.J., A. Bondeson, E. Ott, T.M. Antonsen, and C. Grebogi

                “Quasiperiodic forcing and the observability of strange nonchaotic attractors”

                Physica Scripta, 40, 442, 1989.

 

[33]         Tsurutani, B.T., D.E. Page, E.J. Smith, B.E. Goldstein, A.L. Brinca,

                R.M. Thorne, H. Matsumoto, I.G. Richardson, and T.R. Sanderson

                “Low frequency plasma waves and ion pitch angle scattering at large distances

(>3.5x105 km) from Giacobini-Zinner: IMF a dependences”

                J. Geophys. Res., 94, 18, 1989.

 

[34]         Tsurutani, B.T., A.L. Brinca, B. Butti, E.J. Smith, R.M. Thorne, and

                H. Matsumoto

                “Magnetic pulses with durations near the local proton cyclotron period:

Comet Giacobini-Zinner”

                J. Geophys. Res., 94, 29, 1989.

 

[35]         Tsurutani, B.T., R.M. Thorne, E. J. Smith, A.L. Brinca, and H. Matsumoto

                “Properties of whistler mode wave packets at the leading edge of steepened

magnetosonic waves: Comet Giacobini-Zinner”

                Planet. Space Sci., 37, 167, 1989.

 

 [36]        Tsurutani, B.T., A.L. Brinca, E.J. Smith, R.T. Okida, R.R. Anderson,  and

                T.E. Eastman

                “A statistical study of ELF-VLF plasma waves at the magnetopause”

                J. Geophys. Res., 94, 1270, 1989.

 

 [37]        Brinca, A.L., and B.T. Tsurutani

                “Survey of low frequency electromagnetic waves stimulated by two coexisting

newborn ion species”

                J. Geophys. Res., 93, 48, 1988.

 

[38]         Brinca, A.L., and B.T. Tsurutani

                “Temperture effects on the pickup process of water-group and hydrogen ions:

Extensions of `A theory for low-frequency waves observed at comet Giacobini-Zinner´

By M.L. Goldstein and H.K. Wong”

                J. Geophys. Res., 93, 243, 1988.

 

 

 

[39]         Romeiras, F.J., C. Grebogi, and E. Ott

                “Critical exponents for power spectra scaling at mergings of chaotic bands”

                Physical Review A, 38, 463, 1988.

 

[40]         Brinca, A.L., and B.T. Tsurutani

                “On the polarization, compression, and nonoscillatory behavior of hydromagnetic

waves associated with pickup ions”

                Geophys. Res.Lett., 14, 495, 1987.

                “Correction”

                Geophys. Res.Lett., 14, 783, 1987.

 

 [41]        Brinca, A.L., and B.T. Tsurutani

                “Unusual characteristics of electromagnetic waves excited by cometary newborn

ions with large perpendicular energies”

                Astron. Astrophys., 187, 311, 1987.

 

[42]         Grebogi, C., E. Ott, F.J. Romeiras, and J.A. Yorke

                “Critical exponents for crisis-induced intermittency”

                Physical Review A, 36, 5365, 1987.

 

 [43]        Romeiras, F.J., and E. Ott

                “Strange nonchaotic attractors of the damped pendulum with quasiperiodic forcing”

                Physical Review A, 35, 4404, 1987.

 

 [44]        Romeiras, F.J., A. Bondeson, E. Ott, T.M. Antonsen, and C. Grebogi

                “Quasiperiodically forced dynamical systems with strange nonchaotic attractors”

                Physica D, 26, 277, 1987.

 

[45]         Tsurutani, B.T., A.L. Brinca, E.J. Smith, R.M. Thorne, F.L. Scarf, J.T. Gosling,

                and F.M. Ipavich

                “MHD waves detected by ICE at distances > 28x106 km from comet Halley:

Cometary or solar wind origin? ”

                Astron. Astrophys, 187, 27, 1987.

 

[46]         Brinca, A.L., A. Moreira, F. Serra, G. Haerendel, and G. Paschmann

                “Complementary analysis and interpretation of the shock-like electrostatic noise

observed during the AMPTE solar wind lithium release”

                J. Geophys. Res., 91, 10167, 1986.

 

[47]         Krimigis, S., G. Haerendel, G. Gloeckler, R. McEntire, E. Shelley, R. Decker,

G. Paschmann, ª Valenzuela, T. Potemra, F. Scarf, A.L.Brinca, and H. Luehr

                “AMPTE lithium tracer releases in the solar wind: Observations inside

the magnetopause”

                J. Geophys. Res., 91, 1339, 1986.

 

 [48]        Romeiras, F.J., and G. Rowlands

                “A comparative study of the instabilities of two classes of nonlinear waves in cold plasmas”

                J. Plasma Phys., 35, 529, 1986.

 

 [49]       Romeiras, F.J., and G. Rowlands

                “Exact solution of a nonlinear eigenvalue problem”

                Physical Review A, 33, 3499, 1986.

 

 [50]        Romeiras, F.J., and G. Rowlands

                “Stability of strong electromagnetic waves in overdense plasmas  against long wavelength

                 perturbations”

                J. Plasma Phys., 33, 285, 1985.

 

 [51]        Romeiras, F.J., and C.M. Ferreira

                “Diffusion theory of  the low-pressure positive column with two-step ionization from a

                 metastable state. Part II. Approximate analytical solutions for planar geometry”

                J. Appl. Phys., 58, 65, 1985.

 

 [52]       Romeiras, F.J., and C.M. Ferreira

                “Diffusion theory of  the low-pressure positive column with two-step ionization from a

                 metastable state. Part I”

                J. Appl. Phys., 58, 58, 1985.