Anisotropy effects on curvature-driven flute instabilities in a hot-electron plasma

  • D. A. Spong
  • , H. L. Berk
  • , J. W. Van Dam
  • , M. N. Rosenbluth

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    Abstract

    The effects of finite parallel temperature are investigated for a hot-electron plasma with sufficiently large beta that the magnetic field scale length (ΔB) is small compared with the vacuum field radius of curvature (R). Numerical and analytical estimates of stability boundaries are obtained for the four possible modes that can be treated in this limit: the conventional hot-electron interchange, the high-frequency hot-electron interchange (ω > ωci), the compressional Alfvén mode, and the interacting pressure-driven interchange.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)2652-2656
    Number of pages5
    JournalPhysics of Fluids
    Volume26
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1983

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