Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9815447k&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A9, p. 15,447-15,465.
Physics
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Current Sheets, Ion Motion, Magnetotails, Particle Interactions, Protons, Current Distribution, Mathematical Models, Particle Density (Concentration), Particle Trajectories
Scientific paper
A technique to generate self-consistent 1D current sheets is described. Groups of monoenergetic protons were followed in a modified Harris magnetic field. This sample current sheet is characterized by resonant quasi-adiabatic orbits. The magnetic moment of a quasi-adiabatic ion which is injected from outside a current sheet changes substantially during the orbit but returns to almost its initial value by the time the ion leaves. Several ion and electron groups were combined to produce a plasma sheet in which the charged particles carry the currents needed to generate the magnetic field in which the orbits were traced. An electric field also is required to maintain charge neutrality. Three distinct orbit types, one involving untrapped ions and two composed of trapped ions, were identified. Limitations associated with the use of a 1D model also were investigated; it can provide a good physical picture of an important component of the cross-tail current, but cannot adequately describe any region of the magnetotail in which the principal current sheet is separated from the plasma sheet boundary layer by a nearly isotropic outer position of the central plasma sheet.
Kaufmann Richard L.
Lu Chen
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