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Electrostatic instabilities in anti-loss-cone plasma
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
Abstract
It is shown that both lower hybrid and modified electron acoustic instabilities can be excited in a hot anti-loss-cone plasma co-existing with a rarefied cold plasma, provided the anti-loss-cone factor, ρ, exceeds a value Tm/Tt, where Tm and Tt are the parallel temperatures of missing and trapped electrons respectively. These instabilities are excited in a bounded range of wavenumbers and the growth rates are enhanced with the increase of cold plasma density. For
Tm/Tt < ρ > (Tm/Tt)½
both the instabilities are of resonant type whereas for ρ > (Tm/Tt)½ both may be converted into non-resonant types. These instabilities are expected to give rise to the heating of protons as well as electrons in the magnetosphere beyond the plasmapause.
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