NASA NTRS · 19810043181
Modulational instability in a plasma with suprathermal electrons
Abstract
The consequences of the presence of suprathermal electrons on the linear stage of modulational instabilities are investigated for a range of parameters appropriate to both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. Substantial modification to the growth rate and secondary spectrum are found to occur for instabilities driven by large amplitude Langmuir waves in the dipole limit due to the kinetic effects of the suprathermal electrons. In particular, for reasonable choices of pump amplitude and suprathermal energy density, additional modes become unstable.
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Freund, H. P., Smith, R. A., Papadopoulos, K., Palmadesso, P.. 1981-03-01. Modulational instability in a plasma with suprathermal electrons. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19810043181
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