The Washimi and Karpman ponderomotive interaction due to electron waves propagation is investigated for low temperature unmagnetized plasmas described by an isotropic Kappa distribution. We performed a brief analysis of the influence of the Kappa distribution in the dispersion relations for a low temperature plasma expansion at the lowest order in which the thermal effects are appreciated and without considering the damping characteristics of the wave. The spatial and temporal factor of the ponderomotive force are obtained as a function of the wavenumber, the spectral index κ and the ratio between the plasma thermal velocity and the speed of light. Our results show that for unmagnetized plasmas non-thermal effects are negligible for the spatial ponderomotive force when non-relativistic thermal velocities are considered. However, for unmagnetized plasmas the temporal factor of the ponderomotive force appears only due to the presence of suprathermal particles, with a clear dependence on the κ index. We have also analyzed the role of the non-thermal effect in the induced Washimi and Karpman ponderomotive magnetization and the total power radiated associated with it. Furthermore, we show that the magnitude of the slowly varying induced ponderomotive magnetic field increases as the plasma moves away from thermal equilibrium.
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