Fig. 1

Physical form of the different unstable azimuthal m modes present in a plasma column with a purely toroidal field. Below each mode the cross section of the co-moving surface is shown along with the cross section of the equilibrium state. The only axisymmetric mode is m = 0 and the only mode that preserves the column’s cross section is the m = 1 mode.
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