Large amplitude ion-acoustic rarefactive and compressive solitons and double layers in a dusty plasma with finite ion temperature

Abstract

Large amplitude ion-acoustic solitons and double layers are studied using Sagdeev’s pseudo potential technique in a collisionless unmagnetized plasma consisting of hot and cold Maxwellian electrons, warm adiabatic ions, and heavily charged massive dust grains. It is found that for the selected set of plasma parameters, the system can support both solitons and double layers in the presence of negative as well as positive dust in the plasma. Further we have also investigated the ranges of parameters for simultaneous existence of both rarefactive and compressive supersonic solitons. The effects of dust concentration and ion temperature on the amplitude and Mach number of the double layer have also been studied. Our findings may be helpful in understanding the formation of non-linear structures, specially the solitons and double layers in space plasma, such as: in interstellar clouds, circumstellar clouds, planetary rings, comets, cometary tails, asteroid zones, auroral plasma, magnetospheric plasma, pulsars, and other astronomical environments and laboratory plasmas.