Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1978
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Physics
Earth Magnetosphere, Magnetic Storms, Neutral Sheets, Solar Flares, Charged Particles, Magnetic Field Configurations, Particle Motion, Plasma Dynamics
Scientific paper
An analytical model of O-type configurations was derived, for visualizing the geometry and for numerical treatment of plasma flows. It was found that at a certain distance from the neutral line the mean particle motion became decoupled from that of magnetic field lines (which obey the MHD condition). The decoupling distance depended on initial conditions in momentum space, suggesting that the MHD approximation which averages out such conditions may not suffice for describing plasma dynamics near the neutral line. It was also found that after inflowing particles are decoupled from the field line motion, they go over to a mode of runaway acceleration along the neutral line. It is concluded that if merging occurs at an X-O pair, two particle populations may be expected - low energy particles accelerated adiabatically by earthward convection past the X-type line and high-energy particles convected towards the O-type line. The second acceleration process depends critically on the rapidity of merging and is therefore expected to vary considerably from event to event.
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