Reconnection in the magnetotail

Details Reconnection in the magnetotail Reconnection in the magnetotail

May 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979ssrv...23..411g&link_type=abstract

(COSPAR, IAU, IUGG, IUPAP, and URSI, International Symposium on Solar Terrestrial Physics, Innsbruck, Austria, May 29-June 3, 19

Physics

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Geomagnetic Tail, Lines Of Force, Magnetic Storms, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Collisionless Plasmas, Magnetic Variations, Particle Acceleration, Plasma Layers

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The ion tearing mode is considered as the only mechanism capable of initiating reconnection processes in the equilibrium plasma sheet whose scale considerably exceeds the ion Larmor radius. The paper gives a brief review of linear theory of the tearing mode instability that allows the onset of its development to be determined. It is shown that the explosive growth of the tearing mode in a nonlinear stage is consistent with the dynamics of charged particle acceleration and the behavior of the magnetic field variations and plasma flow in the magnetotail. The tail structure formed, as a result of the development of the tearing mode, is also discussed.

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