On the forcing ,
The other three factors have roots with real decay rate , so a real-frequency gas wave can resonate only with the undamped factor . The resonance condition is therefore
At resonance, annihilates the forcing, so a particular solution acquires one power of time:
This is a streaming instability resonance: the gas wave's phase velocity along matches the dust drift projected along the same wavevector.
A localized monochromatic cylinder emits four narrow beams, one in each quadrant, forming a St Andrew's cross. If is the beam angle to the horizontal,
equivalently, its angle to the vertical obeys . As rises from zero to , the beams rotate from horizontal toward vertical. For no freely propagating internal wave exists and the response is evanescent.
The wavevector and phase velocity are parallel. The dispersion relation is homogeneous of degree zero in , so Euler's theorem gives : the group velocity is perpendicular to both the wavevector and phase velocity. Energy travels along the beams in the group-velocity direction.