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Abraham-Shrauner et al. 1979
Abraham-Shrauner, B., Asbridge, J.R., Bame, S.J. and Feldman, W.C. (1979). Proton-driven electromagnetic instabilities in high-speed solar wind streams. Journal of Geophysical Research 84: doi: 10.1029/JA084iA02p00553. issn: 0148-0227.

Electromagnetic instabilities of the field-aligned, right-hand circularly polarized magnetosonic wave and the left-hand circularly polarized Alfv¿n wave driven by two drifted proton components are analyzed for model parameters determined from Imp 7 solar wind proton data measured during high-speed flow conditions. Growth rates calculated using bi-Lorentzian forms for the main and beam proton as well as core and halo electron velocity distributions do not differ significantly from those calculated using bi-Maxwellian forms. Using distribution parameters determined from 17 measured protons spectra, we show that considering the uncertainties the magnetosonic wave ay be linearly stable and the Alfv¿n wave is linearly unstable. Because proton velocity distribution function shapes are observed to persist for times long compared to the proton gyroperiod, the latter results suggests that linear stability theory fails for proton-driven ion cyclotron waves in the high-speed solar wind.

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