Contents
Plasma Physics Reports

Vol. 25, No. 4, 1999

Simultaneous English language translation of the journal is available from “ / Interperiodica” (Russia).
Distributed worldwide by the American Institute of Physics. Plasma Physics Reports ISSN 1063-780X.

Magnetic Confinement Systems

MHD Stable Plasma Pressure Profiles in Long Axisymmetric Open Systems

V. V. Arsenin p. 277  abstract

Plasma Oscillations and Waves

Diffraction of Laser Radiation and Analysis of Ordered Grain Structures
in a Nonideal Thermal Dusty Plasma

O. S. Vaulina, O. F. Petrov, and M. V. Taranin p. 281  abstract

Magnetized Rossby Waves in the Earth’s Ionosphere

T. D. Kaladze p. 284  abstract

Parametric Absorption of Lower Hybrid Waves in a Nonuniform Magnetized Plasma

V. N. Pavlenko and V. G. Panchenko p. 288  abstract

Plasma Dynamics

Microwave Oscillations as a Tool for Studying the Processes in the Accelerating Chamber
of a Stationary Plasma Thruster

K. P. Kirdyashev and A. I. Morozov p. 293  abstract

Space Plasma

Jumps in an Adiabatic Invariant with Small Initial Values

D. L. Vainshtein, L. M. Zelenyi, A. I. Neishtadt, and B. V. Savenkov p. 299  abstract

Plasma Instability

Ion-Acoustic Instability with Allowance for Inverse Bremsstrahlung
in a Weakly Collisional Plasma

K. Yu. Vagin, V. P. Silin, and S. A. Uryupin p. 304  abstract

Turbulence

Turbulent Ion-Acoustic Structures in a Current-Carrying Magnetized Plasma

K.A. Sarksyan, N. N. Skvortsova, N. K. Kharchev, and B. Ph. van Milligen p. 312  abstract

Low-Temperature Plasma

Dynamics of the Population of the Electronic States of Molecular Nitrogen and the Structure
of a Fast Ionization Wave

S. V. Pancheshnyi, S. M. Starikovskaya, and A. Yu. Starikovskii p. 326  abstract

Self-Similar Regimes of Fast Ionization Waves in Shielded Discharge Tubes

D. N. Gerasimov and O. A. Sinkevich p. 339  abstract

Filamentation of the Plasma Channel in a High-Pressure Microwave Discharge

P. V. Vedenin p. 347  abstract

BriefCommunications

Velocity Gradient–Driven Electrostatic Ion-Cyclotron-Drift Waves and Associated Ion
Acceleration in the Auroral Ionosphere

P. K. Shukla and L. Stenflo p. 355  abstract

Instability of the Circular Polarization of Radiation in a Plasma

V. P. Silin p. 358  abstract

Boris Andreevich Trubnikov (In Honor of His 70th Birthday) p. 361

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