Finite ion Larmor radius modifications to the firehose and mirror instabilities
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.
- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0022377800022005
- Bibcode:
- 1979JPlPh..21..431H
- Keywords:
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- Collisionless Plasmas;
- Ionic Mobility;
- Larmor Radius;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Plasma Decay;
- Cosmic Plasma;
- Hydrogen Plasma;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Waves;
- Maxwell Equation;
- Vlasov Equations;
- Astrophysics