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Electromagnetic Heavy Ion/Proton Instabilities

Liewer, P.·Gary, S.·Wang, J.

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Abstract

Ion/ion instabilities are driven by the relative velocity v***subo*** of two distinct ion components.

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ion instabilities Proton Instabilities Electromagnetic velocity linear Vlasov plasma parameters

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Liewer, P., Gary, S., Wang, J.. 1999-01-01. Electromagnetic Heavy Ion/Proton Instabilities. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210003377

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