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Hwang & Okuda 1989
Hwang, Y.S. and Okuda, H. (1989). Low-frequency electrostatic instabilities excited by injections of an electron beam in space. Journal of Geophysical Research 94: doi: 10.1029/89JA00730. issn: 0148-0227.

One-dimensional particle simulations have been carried out to study the low-frequency broadband electrostatic noise that propagates almost perpendicularly from the magnetic field line when a nonrelativistic electron beam is injected into space from a spacecraft. For Te=Ti the electrostatic ion cyclotron waves appear as well as the waves near the lower hybrid frequency. When the magnetic field is reduced so that &OHgr;e≪&ohgr;pe in a nonisothermal plasma, Te>Ti, oblique ion acoustic instabilities appear to propagate almost perpendicular to the magnetic field. In addition, a very low frequency mode at &ohgr;≪&OHgr;i is found to be generated by the electrons flowing into the conductor. Both the injected beam electrons as well as the ambient electrons flowing into the spacecraft are responsible for generating those instabilities, which accelerate ion perpendicular to the magnetic field. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1989

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Magnetospheric Physics, MHD waves and instabilities
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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