Non-linear Plasma Wake Growth of Electron Holes

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RIMUAA· OSTI ID:1881489

Hutchinson, I. H. ^[1]; Haakonsen, C. B.; Zhou, C.

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1. OSTI

An object’s wake in a plasma with small Debye length that drifts across the magnetic field is subject to electrostatic electron instabilities. Such situations include, for example, the moon in the solar wind wake and probes in magnetized laboratory plasmas. The instability drive mechanism can equivalently be considered drift down the potential-energy gradient or drift up the density gradient. The gradients arise because the plasma wake has a region of depressed density and electrostatic potential into which ions are attracted along the field. The non-linear consequences of the instability are analysed in this paper. At

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Science and Fusion Center
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-06ER54891
• OSTI ID: 1881489
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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