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mirror instability: a standalone construct

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Plasma physics

compressive instability of a magnetized plasma with excess perpendicular pressure, forming magnetic bottles that trap particles.

In plasma physics, mirror instability refers to compressive instability of a magnetized plasma with excess perpendicular pressure, forming magnetic bottles that trap particles. This meaning comes from Hasegawa (1969) in The Physics of Fluids.[1]

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References

Hasegawa, A. (1969). Drift Mirror Instability in the Magnetosphere. The Physics of Fluids, 12(12), 2642-2650. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1692407

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