Phase-Space Energy Transfer of Waves and Instabilities from the Vlasov-Maxwell Dispersion Relation

Advancing kinetic descriptions of plasmas requires an understanding of the phase-space energy transfer over a dense and large set of parameters, which has been only partially filled by in-situ spacecraft measurements and simulations. We present methods for analytically determining the net energy transfer in phase-space due to wave-particle interactions, enabling the efficient calculation of this key metric. Here, we compute these energization signatures for fundamental wave-particle interactions from the Vlasov-Maxwell Dispersion relation using the Field-Particle Correlation (FPC) technique with the code JET-PLUME (Judging Energy Transfer in a Plasma in a Uniform Magnetized Environment), an extension to PLUME (Klein et al. 2015). The results of JET-PLUME show strong agreement with simulations of wave-particle interactions such as Landau damping, ion cyclotron damping, and the Weibel instability. JET-PLUME generates the measurements needed for many applications including identifying mechanisms using in-situ measurements, selecting laser wavelengths for laser-induced fluorescence, and computing the residuals for Bayesian analysis of spacecraft data.