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It is shown that the density independent flute mode observed in Base-Ball II mirror becomes explosively unstable in the presence of ion cyclotron oscillations. The nonlinear growth times agree fairly well with the bursting time-scale of the amplitude of flute perturbations.
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Avinash et al. (1987) studied this question.
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