A possible mechanism for instability in a perpendicular collisionless shock wave
- 1 September 1970
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 3 (5) , L40-L44
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/3/5/018
Abstract
Bernstein waves which propagate in a direction opposite to the current flow in a perpendicular collisionless shock can have negative energy. These negative-energy waves can give rise to instability either by coming into resonance with the ion acoustic wave or by dissipating their energy through ion Landau damping. In the second case the instability can take place for T1>or approximately=Te.Keywords
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