Effect of Cairns-Tsallis distribution on ion acoustic waves in interstellar medium

Abstract

Ion acoustic waves (IAWs) in an electron–positron–ion (EPI) plasma are studied as affected by various plasma parameters, e.g., electron density, ion temperature, cold ion cyclotron frequency, nonextensive and nonthermal parameters. Plasma fluid equations have been applied to study the plasma system for which reductive perturbation method (RPM) and small-k expansion method are used to derive the relevant ZK and modified ZK (mZK) equations and the instability growth rate of IAWs, respectively. The effects of nonextensive and nonthermal parameters, external magnetic field, ion–electron temperature ratio and electron density on the dispersion relation, amplitude and width, energy and multi-dimensional instability of IAWs have been shown. It is found that the dispersion relation increases with the increasing nonthermality parameter, but decreases with the increasing nonextensivity parameter. Increasing nonextensive parameter leads to the decreasing soliton energy and the increasing growth rate. Increasing nonthermal parameter leads to the decreasing growth rate. These results will be helpful in the determination of plasma dynamics for electron–positron–ion plasma systems containing Cairns-Tsallis distributed electrons and positrons in interstellar.