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Finite ion Larmor radius modifications to the firehose and mirror instabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

A. N. Hall
Affiliation:
Department of Astrophysics, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RQ

Abstract

We examine the effect of finite ion Larmor radius on the hydromagnetic growth rates of the firehose and mirror instabilities. We perturb an infinite, collisionless, magnetized plasma which is initially uniform, and we do not restrict the direction of the wave vector, k.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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