The effects of pressure anisotropy on Birkeland currents in dipole and stretched magnetospheres

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Apr 1992

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, no. A4, April 1, 1992, p. 3919-3927.

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Birkeland Currents, Geomagnetism, Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, Plasma Pressure, Space Plasmas, Anisotropic Media, Current Density, Linear Equations, Magnetic Dipoles

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Attention is given to two effects which modify the rate of generation of Birkeland currents from the values given by the Vasyliunas (1970) formula in a dipole, namely, nonisotropic plasma pressure and the radial distention of magnetic field lines. The parallel current at any given point is the integrated effect of the diversion of perpendicular currents along the length of the flux tube from the equator. The result for j-parallel in I is fully nonlinear. In a dipole field the effect of anisotropy is modest: j-parallel at the ionosphere is, irrespective of the r0 value, about factor of 2.4 larger for a large P-parallel anisotropy (r = 0.1) than for the isotropic case and factor of 0.2 smaller for r = 10. In the stretched field the comparable values are factor of 10 and factor of 0.06 for a field line intersecting the ionosphere at a dipole colatitude of 16.4 deg and crossing the equator at r0 of 20. The results exhibit differences in plasma density and plasma pressure along field lines between the stretched and dipole models.

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