Physics of the magnetotail current sheet

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Jul 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993phflb...5.2663c&link_type=abstract

Physics of Fluids B (ISSN 0899-8221), vol. 5, no. 7, pt. 2, p. 2663-2670.

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Current Sheets, Magnetotails, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Solar Wind, Charged Particles, Magnetic Fields, Mathematical Models

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The Earth's magnetotail plays an important role in the solar-wind-magnetosphere coupling. At the midplane of the magnetotail is a current sheet where the dominant magnetic field component reverses sign. The charged particle motion in and near the current sheet is collisionless and nonintegrable, exhibiting chaotic scattering. The current understanding of the dynamical properties of the charged particle motion is discussed. In particular, the relationships between particle dynamics and global attributes of the system are elucidated. Geometrical properties of the phase space determine important physical observables on both micro- and macroscales.

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