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Analysis of electromagnetic instabilities parallel to the magnetic field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

W. Pilipp  and
H. J. Völk
W. Pilipp
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Institut fü Extraterrestrische Physik, 8046 Garching bei München, Germany
H. J. Völk
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Institut fü Extraterrestrische Physik, 8046 Garching bei München, Germany
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Transverse waves and instabilities propagating along the magnetic field in a homogeneous plasma are discussed analytically and numerically for frequencies of the order of the ion cyclotron frequency and below. The free energy driving the instabilities is assumed to be provided by thermal anisotropies, with the parallel temperature exceeding the perpendicular temperature, a situation appropriate to the solar wind near the earth and to the downstream conditions in collisionless shocks propagating approximately parallel to the magnetic field. It is shown that in the case where the ion β is of order one the long wavelength Firehose instability is not stabilized by finite Larmor radius effects, but that for smaller wavelengths it goes over smoothly into the resonant proton mode, discussed by Kennel & Scarf (1968).

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , August 1971 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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