Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986esasp.251..195b&link_type=abstract
In ESA Proceedings of the Joint Varenna-Abastumani International School and Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics p 195-201 (SEE N87-
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Particle Motion, Stochastic Processes, Chaos, Current Sheets, Larmor Radius, Magnetic Storms, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Tearing Modes (Plasmas)
Scientific paper
A simple mechanisms is proposed, that explains the transition to instability of the Earth's magnetotail. The instability was shown to be triggered by a stochastization of the electron motion, caused by a strong interaction between gyration and the field-aligned degree of freedom. The authors show that the usual evolution of the tail always leads to a state, where the resonance condition κe = Bn/B0×√(L/ρe0) is fulfilled (Bn and B0 are the tangential and normal components of the tail-magnetic fields, ρe0 and L the electron-Larmor-radius in and the characteristic width of the tail-plasma sheet.
Buechner Joerg
Zeleny L. M.
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