A small-scale plasmoid formed during the May 13, 1985, AMPTE magnetotail barium release

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Dec 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989jgr....9417084b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 94, Dec. 1, 1989, p. 17084-17096. Research supported by NASA and DOE.

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Barium Ion Clouds, Earth Magnetosphere, Geomagnetic Tail, High Temperature Plasmas, Space Plasmas, Diurnal Variations, Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Storms, Plasma Sheaths, Triangulation

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Plasmoids are closed magnetic-loop structures with entrained hot plasma which are inferred to occur on large spatial scales in space plasma systems. A model is proposed here to explain the brightening and rapid tailward movement of the barium cloud released by the AMPTE IRM spacecraft on May 13, 1985. The model suggests that a small-scale plasmoid was formed due to a predicted development of heavy-ion-induced tearing in the thinned near-tail plasma sheet. Thus, a plasmoid may actually have been imaged due to the emissions of the entrained plasma ions within the plasma bubble.

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