A non-linear theory of the parallel firehose and gyrothermal instabilities in a weakly collisional plasma
Weakly collisional magnetized cosmic plasmas have a dynamical tendency to develop pressure anisotropies with respect to the local direction of the magnetic field. These anisotropies trigger plasma instabilities at scales just above the ion Larmor radius ρ i and much below the mean free path λ mfp. T...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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