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Energetic astrophysical phenomena, such as $\gamma$-ray bursts and supernova explosion-driven shocks in collisionless plasmas, involve various plasma kinetic instabilities, such as the Weibel instability. In this paper, we explore the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Michael C. Sitarz

A linear analysis based on two-fluid equations in the approximation of a cold plasma, wherein the plasma temperature is assumed to be zero, demonstrates that a two-stream instability occurs in all cases. However, if this were true, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Shinji Koide , Masaaki Takahashi , Rohta Takahashi

We develop a self-consistent theory of temporal fluctuations of a speckle pattern resulting from the multiple scattering of a coherent wave in a weakly nonlinear disordered medium. The speckle pattern is shown to become unstable if the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 S. E. Skipetrov , R. Maynard

An alternative mechanism is proposed for the generation of harmonics of the electron plasma frequency due to the development of explosive instability in a system of interpenetrating electron and proton flows in the solar atmosphere. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-01 V. V. Fomichev , S. M. Fainshtein , G. P. Chernov

In plasmas where the thermal energy density exceeds the magnetic energy density ($\beta_\parallel > 1$), the aperiodic ordinary mode (O-mode) instability is driven by an excess of parallel temperature $A = T_\perp /T_\parallel < 1$ (where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Lazar , R. Schlickeiser , S. Poedts , A. Stockem , S. Vafin

Depending on the physical conditions involved the beam plasma systems may reveal new unstable regimes triggered by the wave instabilities of different nature. We show through linear theory and numerical simulations the existence of an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 R. A. López , M. Lazar , S. M. Shaaban , S. Poedts , P. S. Moya

We obtain an expression for the energy of the density wave propagating in a multicomponent gravitating medium in the form well known from electrodynamics. Using the above, the possibility of "triple production" of the quasi-particles, or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Kingsep , Yu. A. Fridman

In this work linear stability analysis of a four-fluid optically thin plasma consisting of electrons, ions, neutral atoms, and charged dust particles is performed with respect to the radiation-condensation (RC) instability. The energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Kopp , Yu. A. Shchekinov

The relative motion of two interpenetrating streams of charged particles usually leads to the generation of two stream instability (TSI) and eventually result in the onset of non-linear plasma processes such as the turbulence or the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Vipin K. Yadav , Abhinav Singh , Rajneesh Kumar

The electromagnetic modes possibly unstable in strongly magnetized plasmas are identified. The regime where this instability might stand out compared to the incoherent electron-cyclotron radiation is explored. These modes are relevant to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 S. Son , Sung Joon Moon

In plasmas with electron drift (current) relative to static ions, the ion acoustic wave is subject to the kinetic instability which takes place if the directed electron speed exceeds the ion acoustic speed. The instability threshold becomes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-07-21 J. Vranjes , S. Poedts , Z. Ehsan

The long-time evolution of the two-stream instability of a cold ion beam pulse propagating though the background plasma is investigated using a large-scale one-dimensional electrostatic kinetic simulation. The three stages of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Kentaro Hara , Igor D. Kaganovich , Edward A. Startsev

In continuation of previous work, numerical results are presented, concerning relativistically counter-streaming plasmas. Here, the relativistic mixed mode instability evolves through, and beyond, the linear saturation -- well into the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacob Trier Frederiksen , Mark Eric Dieckmann

Counterstreaming plasma structures are widely present in laboratory experiments and astrophysical systems, and they are investigated either to prevent unstable modes arising in beam-plasma experiments or to prove the existence of large…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Lazar , R. Schlickeiser , P. K. Shukla

Propagation of the finite amplitude electromagnetic wave through the partially spin-polarized degenerate plasmas leads to the instability. The instability happens at the interaction of the electromagnetic wave with the small frequency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Pavel A. Andreev

The beam-plasma instability, i.e. the response of the plasma bulk to the injection of supra thermal charged-particle beams, results to be appropriately characterized by a long-range interaction system. This physical system hosts a number of…

In collision-poor plasmas from space, three distinct ion-ion instabilities can be driven by the proton beams streaming along the background magnetic field: left-hand resonant, non-resonant, and right-hand resonant instabilities. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 S. M. Shaaban , M. Lazar , R. A. López , S. Poedts

We present numerical simulations of dust clumping and planetesimal formation initiated by the streaming instability with self-gravity. We examine the variability in the planetesimal formation process by employing simulation domains with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Josef Rucska , James Wadsley

A dynamic mitigation mechanism of the two-stream instability is discussed based on a phase control for plasma and fluid instabilities. The basic idea for the dynamic mitigation mechanism by the phase control was proposed in the paper [Phys.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 S. Kawata , Y. J. Gu

The system of neutrino-antineutrino $(\nu\bar{\nu})$ - plasma is considered taking into account their weak Fermi interaction. New fluid instabilities driven by strong neutrino flux in a plasma are found. The nonlinear stationary as well as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-04 Levan N. Tsintsadze