Warm electron-driven whistler instability in an electron-cyclotron-resonance heated, mirror-confined plasma
- 19 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 59 (16) , 1821-1824
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.59.1821
Abstract
The whistler electron microinstability has been observed in the Constance B quadrupole-mirror, electron-cyclotron-resonance heated plasma. Experimental evidence indicates that the warm-electron component (2 keV) drives the instability while the hot-electron component (400 keV) is stable. Dispersion-relation calculations using a new distribution function (electron-cyclotron-resonance heated distribution) to model the warm-electron component are in agreement with this experimental result.Keywords
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