Collisionless reconnection in the magnetotail

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Jan 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997adspr..19.1807p&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 19, Issue 12, p. 1807-1816.

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Recent developments regarding collisionless reconnection in current sheets with a finite normal magnetic field component (B_z) are reviewed. In 2-D x,z configurations the ion tearing mode is stabilized by the electron compressibility. When the y dependence is included, cross-field current instabilities can be excited. Of these, the drift kink mode appears to be particularly important. 3-D electromagnetic particle simulations indicate that this mode can act as the precursor to the growth of tearing modes and subsequent reconnection.

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