Adiabatic plasma convection in the tail plasma sheet

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Adiabatic Conditions, Convective Flow, Electric Fields, Electron Distribution, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Distribution Functions, Geomagnetism, Lines Of Force, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Pitch (Inclination), Pressure Distribution

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Transport of electrons in the tail plasma sheet by convection electric fields is investigated; conservation of the first two adiabatic invariants is assumed. The variation of the electron distribution function, and hence the bulk parameters, with distance from the earth is calculated. The results show that the electron distribution has a pressure anisotropy with the parallel pressure being larger than the perpendicular pressure in the plasma sheet. Finally, the effects of the pressure anisotropy are qualitatively considered in terms of the modification of the geomagnetic field structure in the tail plasma sheet and instabilities due to wave-particle interactions.

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