The mechanism of plasma electron hole transverse instabilitydoi:10.7910/DVN/X6XQTMHarvard Dataverse2018-09-251I. H. Hutchinson, 2018, "The mechanism of plasma electron hole transverse instability", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/X6XQTM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:VCd4fG0yqyI1tXZGUsdMYA== [fileUNF]The mechanism of plasma electron hole transverse instabilitydoi:10.7910/DVN/X6XQTMI. H. HutchinsonHarvard DataversePhysicsholesinstabilitynonlinear theoryPICspace plasmasIt is shown through multidimensional particle-in-cell simulation that the transverse instability of plasma electron holes is caused not by the previously proposed focusing of trapped particles, but instead by kinematic jetting of marginally passing electrons. The mechanism is explained and heuristic analytic estimates obtained which agree with the growth rates and transverse wave-numbers observed in the simulations.<a href="http://library.psfc.mit.edu/catalog/reports/2010/18ja/18ja003/abstract.php">PSFC REPORT PSFC/JA-18-3</a><br /><br />This work was partially supported by NASA grant NNX16AG82G. Computer simulations were carried out on the MIT PSFC parallel AMD Opteron/Infiniband cluster Loki, and on the MIT-PSFC partition of the Engaging cluster at the MGHPCC facility (www.mghpcc.org) which was funded by DoE grant number DE-FG02-91-ER54109.This dataset is made available without information on how it can be used. You should communicate with the Contact(s) specified before use.18ja003_fig2b_data.tab1331text/tab-separated-valuesUNF:6:Lsq8qM0JPwAqpHXl4T4dLg==18ja003_fig4_data.tab81text/tab-separated-valuesUNF:6:1tJdBxTVtnhLRLzRaLefSA==:-xCyclotron Frequency !AW!@ [!Aw!@!dpe!d]UNF:6:Lsq8qM0JPwAqpHXl4T4dLg== 7 5 valuesUNF:6:1tJdBxTVtnhLRLzRaLefSA==18ja003_archival_manuscript.pdfapplication/pdf18ja003_fig2a_data.txttext/plain18ja003_fig2a_image.pdfapplication/pdf18ja003_fig2b_image.pdfapplication/pdf18ja003_fig4_image.pdfapplication/pdf