An asymmetry effect on development of instabilities in current sheets

In this paper, a possibility for the development of tearing tiring- and kink-instabilities [1] (with regard to the symmetrical and asymmetrical modes) in anisotropic thin current sheets (CS) [2] is studied. Profiles of perturbed vector potentials and increments of instability increase have been found from the linear perturbation theory for the Vlasov equations. The effect of plasma anisotropy and asymmetry of the current sheet on the development of the above instabilities is investigated.