Drift Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in space plasmas (Q1196349)
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Drift Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in space plasmas (English)
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8 December 1992
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Three cases of instabilities are discussed in the presence of equilibrium electric and magnetic fields which are perpendicular to each other. In the first case, the magneto-acoustic instability in a plasma flow of finite \(\beta\) with homogeneous density and temperature is discussed and a dispersion relation is achieved and the instability criterion is established. In the second case, effect of the density gradient is studied on the electrostatic drift Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of a low- \(\beta\) plasma in the presence of equilibrium electric and magnetic fields and an instability criterion is obtained. In the third case, we discuss the magneto-acoustic instability of a high-\(\beta\) plasma with gradients in equilibrium density and magnetic field.
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Earth's magnetosphere
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magneto-acoustic instability
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density gradient
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high-beta plasma
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