SOME STUDIES OF WHISTLER INSTABILITY
Abstract
This paper treats the instability excited when a transverse electromagnetic plasma wave, propagating in the right-hand polarized (whistler) mode parallel to a uniform magnetic field, interacts with a stream of monoenergetic gyrating electrons. The objectives of the work are two-fold, first to obtain numerical estimates of the growth rates for various parameters, and second to identify the instabilities as being either absolute or convective. When whistler growth is predicted theoretically, it may not be observable in practice, due to the presence of competing instabilities. Two of these are treated in the paper: perpendicularly propagating cyclotron harmonic waves, and longitudinal beam/plasma interaction.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0833881
Entities
People
- F. W. Crawford
- J. A. Tataronis
- J. C. Lee
Organizations
- Stanford University