Slow drift mirror modes in finite electron-temperature plasma: Hydrodynamic and kinetic drift mirror instabilities

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A3, 2003, Pages

  Pokhotelov, Oleg A ^a   Sandberg, Ingmar ^b   Sagdeev, Roald Z ^c,f   Treumann, Rudolf A ^d   Onishchenko, Oleg G ^a   Balikhin, Michael A ^e   Pavlenko, Vladimir P ^b  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Drift mirror mode; Electron mirror mode; Kinetic mirror mode; Magnetic turbulence; Slow mirror mode

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749089814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009651     Document Type: Article

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