Electron mirror instability: particle-in-cell simulations

0506412 - ÚFA 2020 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Hellinger, Petr - Štverák, Štěpán
Electron mirror instability: particle-in-cell simulations.
Journal of Plasma Physics. Roč. 84, č. 4 (2018), č. článku 905840402. ISSN 0022-3778. E-ISSN 1469-7807
Institutional support: RVO:68378289
Keywords : astrophysical plasmas * plasma instabilities * plasma nonlinear phenomena
OECD category: Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
Impact factor: 2.312, year: 2018
Method of publishing: Open access
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics/article/electron-mirror-instability-particleincell-simulations/A1E9C8A4C17A9DFCFB263F77ECF0CDDF

Properties of the electron mirror instability and its competition with the usually dominant whistler (electron cyclotron) instability driven by the electron perpendicular temperature anisotropy are investigated at the linear level using a Vlasov linear solver and at the nonlinear level using a two-dimensional full particle code. The simulation results show that the linearly subdominant electron mirror instability may compete at the nonlinear level with the whistler instability and may even eventually become the dominant mode that generates robust non-propagating sub-ion-scale coherent structures in the form of magnetic peaks.
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