10.7910/DVN/RIMUAA I.H. Hutchinson; C.B. Haakonsen; C. Zhou Harvard Dataverse 2021 Physics electron holes electrostatic instability kinetic theory nonlinear theory numerical simulation 2021-02-05 605781 application/pdf 1.0 Custom terms specific to this dataset An object’s wake in a plasma with small Debye length that drifts across the magnetic field is subject to electrostatic electron instabilities. Such situations include, for example, the moon in the solar wind wake and probes in magnetized laboratory plasmas. The instability drive mechanism can equivalently be considered drift down the potential-energy gradient or drift up the density gradient. The gradients arise because the plasma wake has a region of depressed density and electrostatic potential into which ions are attracted along the field. The non-linear consequences of the instability are analysed in this paper. At <a href="http://library.psfc.mit.edu/catalog/reports/2010/15ja/15ja001/abstract.php">PSFC REPORT PSFC/JA-15-1</a><br /><br />This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Grant No. DE-FG0206ER54891.