On the Growth Rate of Aperiodic Instability in Plasma with an Anisotropic Bi-Maxwellian Electron Velocity Distribution

The growth rate of aperiodic instability of transverse and longitudinal-transverse electromagnetic field perturbations in plasma with an anisotropic bi-Maxwellian electron velocity distribution is studied. The boundaries of the instability domains in wave vector space are found, and the growth rates of field perturbations with configurations different from that corresponding to the maximum growth rate are determined.