We report theoretical and experimental results on the radiation pattern of the ion acoustic waves below the ion cyclotron frequency from a small probe in a streaming magnetoplasma. In the fluid approximation with cold ions the ion acoustic resonance cones are found to be drastically changed. Experimental ray velocities and constant phase surfaces are in good agreement with the theoretical results.

A mathematical formalism is developed for calculating the ion polarization term in the Rutherford island width evolution equation in the presence of drift-acoustic waves. The calculation is fully nonlinear, includes both ion and electron diamagnetic effects, as well as ion compressibility, but is performed in slab geometry. Magnetic islands propagating in a certain range of phase velocities are...

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Ion acoustic waves can be excited by electrons drifting relative to the ions in a plasma. This relative drift can be produced, in a collisional plasma, by a static electric field. In the analysis of this instability, which occurs for frequencies well below the ion plasma frequency, the electron inertia term in the momentum equation is typically neglected. A similar assumption has been employed ...