Dust-acoustic supersolitons in a three-species dusty plasma with kappa distributions

M. A. Hellberg, T. K. Baluku, F. Verheest, I. Kourakis

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Abstract

Supersolitons are a form of soliton characterised, inter alia, by additional local extrema superimposed on the usual bipolar electric field signature. Previous studies of supersolitons supported by three-component plasmas have dealt with ion-acoustic structures. An analogous problem is now considered, namely, dust-acoustic supersolitons in a plasma composed of fluid negative dust grains and two kappa-distributed positive ion species. Calculations illustrating some supersoliton characteristics are presented.

Original languageBritish English
Pages (from-to)1039-1043
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Plasma Physics
Volume79
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2013

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