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The problem of contrastreaming instability in collisionless anisotropic plasmas is investigated both for electrostatic and electromagnetic perturbations propagatingalong the ambient magnetic field. Both electron-electron and ion-ion streams are considered. It is found that the electromagnetic instability may, under certain conditions, be characterised by larger growth rates than the electrostatic instability.
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Aggarwal, S.S., Talwar, S.P. Contrastreaming instability in collisionless anisotropic plasmas. Astrophys Space Sci 23, 315–323 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00645160
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