The lower hybrid drift instability in nonantiparallel reversed field plasmas

Details The lower hybrid drift instability in nonantiparallel reversed field plasmas The lower hybrid drift instability in nonantiparallel reversed field plasmas

Mar 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982jgr....87.1697h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 87, Mar. 1, 1982, p. 1697-1701. Navy-NASA-supported research.

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Plasma Physics

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Earth Magnetosphere, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Plasma Drift, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Plasma Physics, Plasma Turbulence, Tearing Modes (Plasmas)

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The lower hybrid drift instability is investigated in nonantiparallel reversed field plasmas, i.e., the magnetic fields on either side of a neutral line are not antiparallel. Such a magnetic field configuration contains magnetic shear, which has a stabilizing influence on the lower hybrid drift instability. It is found that magnetic shear has an inhibiting effect on the linear penetration of the lower hybrid drift mode toward the neutral line. The implications of this result to reconnection processes in the magnetosphere (i.e., the nose and the magnetotail) are discussed.

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