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Electron whistler mode instability in an inhomogeneous thermal plasma in the presence of an inhomogeneous beam of suprathermal electrons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

H.A. Shah  and
V.K. Jain
H.A. Shah
Affiliation:
Plasma and Space Physics Group, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH
V.K. Jain
Affiliation:
Plasma and Space Physics Group, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH
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Abstract

The excitation of the whistler mode waves propagating obliquely to the constant and uniform magnetic field in a warm and inhomogeneous plasma in the presence of an inhomogeneous beam of suprathermal electrons is studied. The full dispersion relation including electromagnetic effects is derived. In the electrostatic limit the expression for the growth rate is given. It is found that the inhomogeneities in both beam and plasma number densities affect the growth rates of the instabilities.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , June 1983 , pp. 439 - 448
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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