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The free energy associated with the anisotropy in the velocity space of a microwave-heated hot electron distribution can drive the mirror mode unstable. The real frequency of this instability is of the same order as the diamagnetic drift frequency of the hot electrons.
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K. T. Tsang (1983) studied this question.
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