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Electromagnetic ion-cyclotron wave growth rates and their variation with velocity distribution function shape

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Abraham Shrauner
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
W. C. Feldman
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

Abstract

The sensitivity of electromagnetic ion-cyclotron wave growth rates to the details of the shape of proton velocity distribution functions is explored. For this purpose two different forms of bi-Lorentzian for the proton distribution functions were adopted. The growth rates for the two types of bi-Lorentzians and the biMaxwellians for the beam (hot) protons are compared. Although the growth rates for the three shapes depend on the velocity moments of the different velocity distributions in a similar way, their magnitudes were found to vary considerably.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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