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Temperature anisotropy instabilities in a plasma of two ion components
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
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This paper studies the linear dispersion properties of ion temperature anisotropy instabilities in an infinite, homogeneous Vlasov plasma containing a second, cooler-ion component. The cooler component enhances the T‖>T⊥ firehose instability, as well as the T⊥>T‖, ion-cyclotron instability, by making the waves more resonant with the ions. The effect of various parameters on this enhancement is studied numerically.
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