Cyclotron maser radiation from inhomogeneous plasmas
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02/2011Author
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EP/G042500/1
EP/D037093/1
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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
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Physics of Plasmas
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Peer reviewed
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1070-664XType
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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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