Zebra-like patterns in whistler wave emission spectra from nonequilibrium mirror-confined laboratory plasma
Plasma Physics
2020-06-16 v2
Abstract
Zebra-like patterns have been observed in the electron cyclotron emission spectra from strongly nonequilibrium plasma confined in a table-top mirror magnetic trap. The analysis of the experimental data suggests that the formation of zebra-like patterns could eventually be related to modulation of the whistler waves by the ion-acoustic waves excited during the abrupt ejection of electrons into a loss cone caused by the development of the whistler instability under the electron cyclotron resonance condition.
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@article{arxiv.2002.02781,
title = {Zebra-like patterns in whistler wave emission spectra from nonequilibrium mirror-confined laboratory plasma},
author = {M. E. Viktorov and A. G. Shalashov and E. D. Gospodchikov and N. Yu. Semin and S. V. Golubev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.02781},
year = {2020}
}
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8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Physics of Plasmas