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Dec 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982jgr....8710355k&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 87, Dec. 1, 1982, p. 10355-10362.
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Cold Plasmas, Collisionless Plasmas, Current Sheets, Ion Beams, Shock Discontinuity, Solar Wind, Beam Plasma Amplifiers, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Fields, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability
Scientific paper
The structure of contact discontinuities in a collision-free plasma is examined using a model of a plasma which consists of two oppositely directed cold ion beams and a background of cold massless electrons such that exact charge neutrality is maintained and that the electric field is zero. The basic equations describing self-consistent equilibria are obtained for the more general situation where a net flow across the layer takes place and where the magnetic field has two nonzero tangential components but where the electric field remains zero. These equations are then specialized to the case of no net plasma flow where one of the tangential components is zero, and four different classes of sheets are obtained, all having thickness the order of the ion inertial length. The first class is for layers separating two identical plasma and magnetic field regions, the second is for an infinite array of parallel layers producing an undulated magnetic field, the third is for layers containing trapped ions in closed orbits which separate two vacuum regions with uniform identical magnetic fields, and the fourth is for layers which reflect a single plasma beam, leaving a vacuum with a reversed and compressed tangential field on the other side.
Kirkland K. B.
Sonnerup Bengt U. Ö.
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