Abstract
Fireballs are discharge phenomena on positively biased small electrodes in plasmas. The discharge arises from electron energization at a double layer. Fireballs can collect relatively large electron currents from the ambient plasma. Fireballs can become unstable to relaxation oscillations. This paper addresses the space–time evolution of pulsed fireballs. Growth and collapse of fireballs produce large density and potential variations near the electrode which couple into the background plasma production. Unstable fireballs emit bursts of fast ions and ion acoustic waves. High-frequency emissions near the electron plasma frequency have been observed and associated with the sheath–plasma instability rather than electron beam–plasma interactions. New shapes of fireballs have been observed in dipole magnetic fields.
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