Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2002
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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 12, pp. 49-1, CiteID 1608, DOI 10.1029/2001GL013789
Physics
Plasma Physics
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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics: Storms And Substorms, Mathematical Geophysics: Nonlinear Dynamics, Space Plasma Physics: Kinetic And Mhd Theory
Scientific paper
Paper is devoted to the self-consistent analysis of thin current sheets (TCSs) formation in the presence of nonadiabatic effects. It is shown that nonadiabaticity of particle motion influences significantly the structure of ``young'' current sheets in which the particles have Speiser orbits. This results into the appearance of ions with large magnetic moments which reduces the current in the center of the sheet. The TCS then deteriorates, which leads to its ``aging'' due to the unavoidable nonadiabatic jumps of the adiabatic invariants of particle motion. When the resulting quasi-trapped domain becomes highly populated, the current decays. The characteristic lifetime of TCS due to the chaotic nature of the system is found to be about 10-60 minutes. This effect provides a new evolutionary mechanism which finally leads to the disruption of CS structure, at least in the frames of our 1D model.
Delcourt Dominique C.
Malova H. V.
Sharma Surjalal A.
Zelenyi Lev M.
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