On the Plasma Quasi-thermal Noise in the Outer Heliosphere

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Abstract The recent paper by Li et al. on electron quasi-thermal noise (QTN) in the outer heliosphere is flawed. It assumes the plasma drift speed to be much smaller than the electron thermal speed, even though both quantities are of the same order of magnitude in the outer heliosphere inward of the termination shock, because of the low plasma temperature. In this case, the Langmuir wave dispersion equation and the QTN in the antenna frame are completely changed. Furthermore, these calculations neglect the shot noise, which should produce a large contribution below the plasma frequency with the Voyager antennas in the outer heliosphere.

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