Convection and the formation of thin current sheets in the near-Earth plasma sheet

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Jul 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21.1587p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 15, p. 1587-1590

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

56

Convection, Current Sheets, Electron Plasma, Geomagnetic Tail, Geomagnetism, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Plasma Currents, Plasma Drift, Astronomical Models, Computerized Simulation, Magnetic Dipoles, Magnetic Storms, Mathematical Models

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Particle simulations are used to investigate plasma sheet convection in a realistic near-Earth magnetic field model including dipolelike and taillike regions. Convection leads to the formation of a thin current region characterized by a strong electrostatic potential and a depressed equatorial magnetic field component in which the cross tail current is carried predominantly by the electrons as a result of their E x B and diamagnetic drifts. Implications for the thin current sheets observed in the near-Earth magnetotail during substorm growth phase are discussed.

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