caa a22 4500 386367701 CHVBK 20180307111942.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002237780001446X doi S002237780001446X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002237780001446X Sato Masumi Department of Electrical Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa 992, Japan Higher-order approximations for the growth rate of the Weibel instability in strongly anisotropic plasmas [Elektronische Daten] [Masumi Sato] Simple higher-order approximations for the linear growth rate γ(k) of the electron Weibel instability are obtained by using fractional approximations for the plasma dispersion function. Approximate expressions for γ(k) are found that are valid in the regions T/T < 5 and T/T > 120 (where T and T are perpendicular and parallel electron temperatures respectively). Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Plasma Physics Cambridge University Press 42/3(1989-12), 421-428 0022-3778 42:3<421 1989 42 PLA https://doi.org/10.1017/S002237780001446X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002237780001446X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sato Masumi Department of Electrical Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa 992, Japan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Plasma Physics Cambridge University Press 42/3(1989-12), 421-428 0022-3778 42:3<421 1989 42 PLA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge