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The radial wave equation describing collisionless drift instabilities in plasma is solved including the effects of a peaked diamagnetic frequency profile. Radially localized fluctuations with no radial energy propagation are found in cases with sufficiently low shear and large peaking.
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Sauthoff et al. (1975) studied this question.
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