A simulation study on reconnection and small-scale plasmoid formation

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Apr 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987jgr....92.3223s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 92, April 1, 1987, p. 3223-3233.

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Current Sheets, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Boundary Value Problems, International Sun Earth Explorers, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves

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Simulations were performed of time-dependent reconnection with current- and drift-velocity-dependent resistivity to study plasmoid formation in a current field where the field lines are free to move at all boundaries. The simulations predict a streaming reversal close to the separatrix with an earthward streaming in the lobe of the distant tail. The results are discussed in relation to recent observations by ISEE 3 in the distant tail.

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