Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21..645r&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 8, p. 645-648
Physics
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Boundary Layer Flow, Current Sheets, Earth Magnetosphere, Electron Plasma, Environment Models, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Plasma Currents, Plasma Waves, Space Plasmas, Broadband, Computerized Simulation, Field Aligned Currents, Magnetic Effects, Mathematical Models
Scientific paper
Observations indicate that the plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL) becomes stressed during active times resulting in enhanced plasma flows, intense wave activity, and its minimum spatial width becoming on the order of the ion Larmor radius. We present simulations showing that the Electron-Ion-Hybrid (EIH) instability plays a key role during of the nonlinear relaxation of such a stressed PSBL. The EIH is a long wavelength mode (k(sub y) L(sub E) approximately 1, where k(sub y) is the perpendicular wavelength and L(sub E) the gradient scale size), its spectrum is broadband (extending from below the lower hybrid frequency to the electron plasma frequency), and its onset can generate substantial perpendicular ion acceleration and anomalous viscosity leading to particle mixing across the PSBL.
Ganguli Gurudas
Romero H.
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