Plasma electron hole oscillatory velocity instability
| Autor: | Ian H. Hutchinson, Chuteng Zhou |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Zhou, Chuteng, Hutchinson, Ian Horner |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Oscillation FOS: Physical sciences Kinematics Electron hole Condensed Matter Physics 01 natural sciences Instability Physics - Plasma Physics Magnetic field Ion Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) Nonlinear system Physics::Plasma Physics Speed of sound 0103 physical sciences Atomic physics 010306 general physics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1701.03140 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we report a new type of instability of electron holes (EHs) interacting with passing ions. The nonlinear interaction of EHs and ions is investigated using a new theory of hole kinematics. It is shown that the oscillation in the velocity of the EH parallel to the magnetic field direction becomes unstable when the hole velocity in the ion frame is slower than a few times the cold ion sound speed. This instability leads to the emission of ion-acoustic waves from the solitary hole and decay in its magnitude. The instability mechanism can drive significant perturbations in the ion density. The instability threshold, oscillation frequency and instability growth rate derived from the theory yield quantitative agreement with the observations from a novel high-fidelity hole-tracking Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code. Comment: 33 pages, 9 figures, paper submitted to Journal of Plasma Physics |
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