On the role of the lower hybrid drift instability in substorm dynamics

Details On the role of the lower hybrid drift instability in substorm dynamics On the role of the lower hybrid drift instability in substorm dynamics

Jul 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981jgr....86.5881h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 86, July 1, 1981, p. 5881-5884. Navy-NASA-supported research.

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Magnetic Field Inversions, Magnetic Storms, Magnetospheric Instability, Plasma Drift, Plasma Oscillations, Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction, Energy Dissipation, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Tearing Modes (Plasmas)

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Recent studies of the lower hybrid drift instability have shed new light on the role of this mode in field-reversed plasmas. For substorm magnetotail conditions it is found that the lower hybrid drift instability can penetrate to the neutral line and can dissipate magnetic energy at a rate of approximately 4 x 10 to the 17th erg/s. Thus this instability is capable of playing a major role in the onset of substorms and providing resistivity for reconnection processes in the context of the neutral line substorm model.

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