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Drift instabilities in anti-loss-cone plasmas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
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The paper investigates the stability of electrostatic waves in non-uniform magnetoplasmas, governed by anti-loss-cone distributions. A new high- frequency anti-loss-cone instability occurs if ρ > ρc. (ρ is the parameter charactensing the strength of the anti-loss-cone.) An increase in ρ increases the growth rates for this instability, but stabilizes the low-frequency instability that exists even in the absence of the anti-loss cone. The growth rates can be of order 0.1Ωe.
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