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Electromagnetic ion-cyclotron instability vs. electrostatic ion-cyclotron instability in mixed (warm-cold) magnetospheric-like plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

S. Cuperman
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
L. Gomberoff
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Abstract

This work presents a systematic investigation and comparison of electromagnetic ion-cyclotron (e.m.) and electrostatic ion-cyclotron (e.s.) instabilities in uniform mixed warm and cold plasmas for magnetospheric-like plasma parameters. The following main aspects are included: Analytical: (i) we derive simple approximate expressions for the maximum growth rate, γmax for the quasi-electrostatic instability in the regime ωr » …p, к » к ≠ 0) with the protons being described by mixed loss-cone and cold populations and with inclusion of electromagnetic coupling effects due to electrons; (ii) we analyse another regime in which electrostatic instalilities first increase with addition of cold plasma and decrease only after having reached a maximum, namely a regime with ωr » …p, к = к; (iii) we summarize the corresponding analytical results for parallel propagating electromagnetic ion-cyclotron unstable waves and discuss their validity range.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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