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Cyclotron maser radiation from inhomogeneous plasmas

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Date
02/2011
Author
Cairns, R Alan
Vorgul, I.
Bingham, Robert
Ronald, K.
Speirs, D. C.
McConville, S. L.
Gillespie, K. M.
Bryson, R.
Phelps, A. D. R.
Kellett, B. J.
Cross, A. W.
Roberston, C. W.
Whyte, C. G.
He, W.
Funder
EPSRC
EPSRC
Grant ID
EP/G042500/1
EP/D037093/1
Keywords
Plasma waves
Magnetic fields
Cyclotron resonances
Dispersion relations
Eigenvalues
Plasma instabilites
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Abstract
Cyclotron maser instabilities are important in space, astrophysical, and laboratory plasmas. While extensive work has been done on these instabilities, most of it deals with homogeneous plasmas with uniform magnetic fields while in practice, of course, the systems are generally inhomogeneous. Here we expand on our previous work [R. A. Cairns, I. Vorgul, and R. Bingham, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 215003 (2008)] in which we showed that localized regions of instability can exist in an inhomogeneous plasma and that the way in which waves propagate away from this region is not necessarily obvious from the homogeneous plasma dispersion relation. While we consider only a simple ring distribution in velocity space, because of its tractability, the ideas may point toward understanding the behavior in the presence of more realistic distributions. The main object of the present work is to move away from consideration of the local dispersion relation and show how global growing eigenmodes can be constructed.
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Cairns , R A , Vorgul , I , Bingham , R , Ronald , K , Speirs , D C , McConville , S L , Gillespie , K M , Bryson , R , Phelps , A D R , Kellett , B J , Cross , A W , Roberston , C W , Whyte , C G & He , W 2011 , ' Cyclotron maser radiation from inhomogeneous plasmas ' , Physics of Plasmas , vol. 18 , no. 2 , 022902 . https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3551697
Publication
Physics of Plasmas
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3551697
ISSN
1070-664X
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2011, American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Physics of Plasmas, Vol 18, Issue 2, and may be found at: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pop/18/2/10.1063/1.3551697
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4335

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