Magnetic holes in plasmas close to the mirror instability

• Published in: Nonlinear processes in geophysics Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 373 - 383
• Main Authors: Borgogno, D, Passot, T, Sulem, P L
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Gottingen Copernicus GmbH 01.01.2007; European Geosciences Union (EGU); Copernicus Publications
• Subjects: Astrophysics; Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics; Earth Sciences; Magnetism; Mathematical models; Physics; Plasma physics; Sciences of the Universe; Simulation; Theory

Non-propagating magnetic hole solutions in anisotropic plasmas near the mirror instability threshold are investigated in numerical simulations of a fluid model that incorporates linear Landau damping and finite Larmor radius corrections calculated in the gyrokinetic approximation. This FLR-Landau fl...