Abstract
Four plasma instabilities which may operate in planetary magnetospheres are described: (1) the low frequency Rayleigh-Taylor-type flute instability as affected by a resistive ionosphere, a dipole field geometry and by resonant particle-wave interactions, (2) a whistler instability, with the concomitant particle diffusion, which occurs in a plasma containing a small component of flat-helix energetic electrons, (3) a nonconvective high frequency two energy component electrostatic loss-cone instability, and (4) the resistive instabilities occurring in sheared magnetic fields, as affected by the Chapman and Cowling collisional and magnetic viscosities and Hall currents.
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Chang, D.B. (1966). Some Plasma Instabilities of the Magnetosphere. In: McCormac, B.M. (eds) Radiation Trapped in the Earth’s Magnetic Field. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3553-8_36
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