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Title	How can slow plasma electron holes exist?

Identifier	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9BHA5D

Creator	Hutchinson, I.H.

Publisher	Harvard Dataverse

Description	One-dimensional analysis is presented of solitary positive potential plasma structures whose velocity lies within the range of ion distribution velocities that are strongly populated: "slow" electron holes. It is shown that to avoid the self-acceleration of the hole velocity away from ion velocities it must lie within a local minimum in the ion velocity distribution. Quantitative criteria for the existence of stable equilibria are obtained. The background ion distributions required are generally stable to ion-ion modes unless the electron temperature is much higher than the ion temperature. Since slow positive potential solitons are shown not to be possible without a significant contribution from trapped electrons, it seems highly likely that such observed slow potential structures are indeed electron holes.

Subject	Physics ion distributions ion velocity distribution one-dimensional analysis plasma electrons positive potential quantitative criteria stable equilibrium trapped electrons

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