Current carriers in the near-earth cross-tail current sheet during substorm growth phase

Details Current carriers in the near-earth cross-tail current sheet during substorm growth phase Current carriers in the near-earth cross-tail current sheet during substorm growth phase

Apr 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990georl..17..583m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 17, April 1990, p. 583-586.

Physics

168

Current Sheets, Field Aligned Currents, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Storms, Polar Substorms, Energetic Particles, International Sun Earth Explorers, Ion Currents, Magnetic Flux

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Throughout most of the growth phase of a substorm, the cross-tail current at x about -10 Re can be supplied by the curvature drift of a bi-directional field aligned distribution of 1 keV electrons. Just prior to its local disruption after substorm onset, the cross-tail current in the now thin (about 400 km) current sheet is carried by the cross-tail serpentine motion of non-adiabatic ions (Speiser, 1965). The instability of this latter current leads to the local disruption of the near-earth current sheet.

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