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On self-consistent waves and their stability in warm plasmas. Part 2. Instability of circularly polarized waves both in the presence and the absence of an ambient magnetic field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

M. A. Lee  and
I. Lerche
M. A. Lee
Affiliation:
Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824
I. Lerche
Affiliation:
Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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Abstract

The stability of a self-consistent, large-amplitude, circularly polarized wave in a warm plasma is investigated. For perturbations to the system propagating normal to the plane of circular polarization, a dispersion relation is derived employing an expansion in the nonlinear wave amplitude and the momentum of the plasma particles in the plane of polarization. Instability results both in the absence and presence of a large-scale magnetic field with a growth rate of the order of the nonlinear wave amplitude.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , August 1980 , pp. 89 - 102
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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