Simple models of time-dependent reconnection in a collision-free plasma with an application to substorms in the geomagnetic tail

Details Simple models of time-dependent reconnection in a collision-free plasma with an application to substorms in the geomagnetic tail Simple models of time-dependent reconnection in a collision-free plasma with an application to substorms in the geomagnetic tail

Apr 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987p%26ss...35..451o&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science (ISSN 0032-0633), vol. 35, April 1987, p. 451-466.

Physics

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Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetic Storms, Magnetospheric Instability, Space Plasmas, Collisionless Plasmas, Current Sheets

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Previous work has shown how simple equilibrium models of steady state reconnection can be set up using the local one-dimensional stress balance condition for the current layer. In this paper it is shown that these models can readily be generalized to include time dependence, both in terms of time-dependent reconnection rates and motions of the neutral line. The results are illustrated by showing how the structure of the plasma sheet in the geomagnetic tail is expected to behave during a substorm, using reconnection rates and neutral line motions deduced from observations.

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