Likelihood topology and applicability limits of spatial anti-aliasing inversion for folded electron drift instability dispersion in Hall thrusters
Abstract
The electron drift instability (EDI) is widely recognized as the leading mechanism for anomalous electron transport in Hall thrusters, but its millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength makes conventional wave-probe analysis strongly limited by spatial aliasing. A multi-geometry spatial anti-aliasing algorithm provides a route for wave-probe diagnostics to break the spatial Nyquist limit, but its effectiveness for nonmonotonic, folded, multi-resonance EDI dispersion has not been quantified. Using the numerically solved linear kinetic EDI dispersion relation under typical Hall-thruster discharge parameters as a benchmark, this work evaluates two-dimensional maximum-likelihood spatial anti-aliasing inversion based on two-probe synthetic signals generated for 25 simulated angle-spacing configurations. For a sampling frequency fs = 100 MHz and signal-to-noise ratio SNR = 10, the method breaks the conventional Nyquist wavenumber limit of about 1 krad/m, extends the accessible range to about 22 krad/m, and recovers the dominant likelihood ridges associated with the first- to fifth-order EDI branches. Parameter scans further show that the statistical realization count L mainly determines the suppression of spurious alias peaks, whereas the frequency resolution delta f mainly determines local branch separation near folded extrema. These results provide benchmark sampling and segmentation constraints for multi-geometry wave-probe diagnosis of EDI dispersion under the present synthetic conditions and can guide future experiments.
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BibTeX
@misc{peng2026likelihood,
title = {{Likelihood topology and applicability limits of spatial anti-aliasing inversion for folded electron drift instability dispersion in Hall thrusters}},
author = {Zilong Peng and Baisheng Wang and Zhongping Zhao and Daren Yu and Yinjian Zhao},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = jun,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.03170},
eprint = {2606.03170},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03170},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Likelihood topology and applicability limits of spatial anti-aliasing inversion for folded electron drift instability dispersion in Hall thrusters
AU - Zilong Peng
AU - Baisheng Wang
AU - Zhongping Zhao
AU - Daren Yu
AU - Yinjian Zhao
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/06/02
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.03170
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03170
AB - The electron drift instability (EDI) is widely recognized as the leading mechanism for anomalous electron transport in Hall thrusters, but its millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength makes conventional wave-probe analysis strongly limited by spatial aliasing. A multi-geometry spatial anti-aliasing algorithm provides a route for wave-probe diagnostics to break the spatial Nyquist limit, but its effectiveness for nonmonotonic, folded, multi-resonance EDI dispersion has not been quantified. Using the numerically solved linear kinetic EDI dispersion relation under typical Hall-thruster discharge parameters as a benchmark, this work evaluates two-dimensional maximum-likelihood spatial anti-aliasing inversion based on two-probe synthetic signals generated for 25 simulated angle-spacing configurations. For a sampling frequency fs = 100 MHz and signal-to-noise ratio SNR = 10, the method breaks the conventional Nyquist wavenumber limit of about 1 krad/m, extends the accessible range to about 22 krad/m, and recovers the dominant likelihood ridges associated with the first- to fifth-order EDI branches. Parameter scans further show that the statistical realization count L mainly determines the suppression of spurious alias peaks, whereas the frequency resolution delta f mainly determines local branch separation near folded extrema. These results provide benchmark sampling and segmentation constraints for multi-geometry wave-probe diagnosis of EDI dispersion under the present synthetic conditions and can guide future experiments.
ER -