The spherical tearing mode

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Oct 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3119806h&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 19, CiteID L19806

Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, Magnetospheric Physics: Mhd Waves And Instabilities, Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions

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The spherical tearing mode is the three-dimensional analog of the classical tearing mode in two dimensions. In three dimensions, loops of field lines connecting magnetic nulls play the role of separatrices. A numerical study of the tearing instability of a three-dimensional analytic equilibrium containing a closed spherical tearing surface composed of null-null lines is presented. A new fast tearing instability is identified. Implications of this model for global models of reconnection at the dayside magnetopause are discussed.

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