Remote observations of coronal holes have strongly implicated the kinetic
interactions of ion-cyclotron waves with ions as a principal mechanism for
plasma heating and acceleration of the fast solar wind. In order to study these
waves, a linear perturbation analysis is used in the work frame of the
collisionless multi-fluid model. We consider a non-uniform background plasma
describing a funnel region and use the ray tracing equations to compute the ray
path of the waves as well as the spatial variation of their properties.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures Modern Solar Facilities, Advanced Solar Science,
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