Quantitative study of the nonlinear formation and acceleration of plasmoids in the earth's magnetotail

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Sep 1990

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 95, Sept. 1, 1990, p. 15023-15037.

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Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetohydrodynamics, Plasma Acceleration, Current Density, Electric Fields, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetic Storms

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Two-dimensional resistive MHD computations are used to investigate the formation and dynamic evolution of plasmoids. It is shown that a magnetotail equilibrium must include a distant neutral line for a quantitative evaluation of the relevant dynamic properties of plasmoids. Particular attention is given to an acceleration mechanism, which exhibits a universal pattern, but is quantitatively dependent on the details of the initial field structure and on the type of microscopic dissipation.

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