On dispersion and damping rates of dust-acoustic waves in hybrid non-thermal Vasyliunas–Cairns distributed plasmas

The dispersion relation and Landau damping rate of dust-acoustic waves (DAWs) are studied by the incorporation of Poison–Vlasov model of the kinetic theory of plasmas. The real and imaginary frequencies of DAWs are obtained in a three-component plasma i.e., electrons, ions and dust grains. The electrons are taken as hybrid non-thermal Vasyliunas–Cairns distributed and in limiting cases as kappa and Cairns distributed as well, while the ions and dust are kept Maxwellian. The findings reveal that the simultaneous presence of two non-thermality parameters (i.e., \(\alpha \) and \(\kappa \)) have a remarkable impact on the dispersion and damping rates of DAWs as compared to the sole presence of any non-thermality parameter and also in the case of thermal electrons. It is also presented that the real and imaginary frequencies of DAWs are significantly influenced by the other important parameters, such as electron to ion temperature and density ratios. This work has notable significance in the understanding of important constituents of space plasmas i.e., thermal and non-thermal dusty plasmas in various environments of space plasmas, where the mixed particle distributions are observed.