Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 1979
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979p%26ss...27..351k&link_type=abstract
Planetary and Space Science, vol. 27, Apr. 1979, p. 351-354.
Physics
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Current Sheets, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Configurations, Field Aligned Currents, Kinetic Energy, Lines Of Force, Magnetic Flux
Scientific paper
A family of exact analytic solutions of the time-independent Vlasov-Maxwell equations is presented. The solutions describe two-dimensional equilibrium current sheet with magnetic field structures resembling that produced by the tearing instability. In particular, the solutions presented here do not restrict the field in the magnetic island to small magnitude. It is shown that as the scale length of the magnetic island increases, the thickness of the current sheet increases while the average current and the average magnetic energy decrease. The tearing structures described by the solutions may exist in the magnetotail current sheet, the magnetopause current layer and the field-aligned auroral sheet current.
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