Mirror modes: Nonmaxwellian distributions

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2000-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0009040v1

Physics

Space Physics

18 pages, 15 figures, revtex4, amsmath, amssymb,amsfonts,times, graphicx, float,verbatim,psfrag

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1370362

We perform direct analysis of mirror mode instabilities from the general dielectric tensor for several model distributions, in the longwavelength limit. The growth rate at the instability threshold depends on the derivative of the distribution for zero parallel energy. The maximum growth rate is always $\sim k_\parallel v_{T\parallel}$ and the instability is of nonresonant kind. The instability growth rate and its dependence on the propagation angle depend on the shape of the ion and electron distribution functions.

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