Thermal Stabilization of the Modified Ordinary Wave
- 5 May 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 181 (1) , 453-456
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.181.453
Abstract
Thermal stabilization of the modified ordinary (MO) wave propagating across an external magnetic field in a two-stream electron plasma is studied. It is found that temperature (1) increases the threshold of the relative streaming velocity below which the wave is stable, (2) imposes an upper limit on the spectrum of unstable wave numbers, and (3) reduces the growth rate. Discussion is given on the physical mechanism of the instability.Keywords
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- Stability of a Uniform Plasma Composed of Streams in the Absence of an External FieldProgress of Theoretical Physics, 1966