Growth and Saturation of the Absolute Electron-Cyclotron Drift Instability
- 24 December 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 31 (26) , 1545-1548
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.31.1545
Abstract
The electron-cyclotron drift instability is observed to develop an absolute instability in the laboratory frame of stationary electrons. We investigate the threshold, temporal and spatial growth, and the saturation mechanism.Keywords
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