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Electron heat flux instability

Lazar, M.; Yoon, P. H.; Saeed, Sundas +2 more

The heat flux instability is an electromagnetic mode excited by a relative drift between the protons and two-component core-halo electrons. The most prominent application may be in association with the solar wind where drifting electron velocity distributions are observed. The heat flux instability is somewhat analogous to the electrostatic Bunema…