Abstract
The stability of a propagating, one-dimensional solitary, slab electron hole in a magnetized plasma is studied using the linearized Vlasov description of the small perturbations. The plasma regimes characteristic to the magnetosphere and to the Earth’s magnetotail are considered. A destabilization of the electron hole by the resonant interaction of the wave with the trapped and the marginally free particles is found, and the expressions for the corresponding growth rates are given. In the case of a cyclotron wave–particle resonance, the instability manifests predominantly in the emission of linear waves. For the low-frequency resonance, when the wave frequency is comparable to the electron bounce frequency, larger growth rates are obtained, and the possibility of the breakup of the hole into smaller structures is found.
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