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Stability of anisotropic plasmas to almost-perpendicular magnetosonic waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

R. W. Landau†  and
S. Cuperman
R. W. Landau†
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and The Institute of Planetary and Space Science, Tel-Aviv University
S. Cuperman
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy and The Institute of Planetary and Space Science, Tel-Aviv University
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Abstract

The stability of anisotropic plasmas to the magnetosonic (or right-hand compressional Alfvén) wave, near the ion cyclotron frequency, propagating almost perpendicular to the magnetic field, is investigated. For this case, and for wavelengths larger than the ion Larmor radius and for large ion plasma frequency (w2p+ ≫ Ωp+) the dispersion relation is obtained in a simple form. It is shown that for T # T' (even T ≫ T) no instabifity occurs. The resonant ters are also included, and it is shown that there is no resonant instabifity, only damping.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , December 1971 , pp. 495 - 512
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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