Ballooning Instability as a Mechanism of the Near-Earth Onset of Substorms

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Jan 2001

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Space Science Reviews, v. 95, Issue 1/2, p. 387-398 (2001).

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After introducing a mathematical definition of the tail-like equilibrium and the dipole-like equilibrium in the magnetosphere, it is shown by using physical intuition based on the Energy Principle that the incompressible assumption for the ballooning instability is more valid for the tail-like configuration when the unstable ballooning mode is strongly localized near the equator. Therefore, before the substorm onset, the near-Earth plasma sheet becomes more tail-like and more likely to be subject to the ballooning instability without the stabilizing influence of the compressibility, when the critical plasma β due to the stabilizing tension force is exceeded. The onset of the ballooning instability in the near-Earth plasma sheet seems promisingly relevant to the substorm onset phenomena. Also, the effect of the stochastic plasma dynamics on the ballooning and interchange instabilities is clearly shown.

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