Surface waves and magnetic reconnection at a magnetopause

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Nov 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996jgr...10124979u&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 101, Issue A11, p. 24979-24984

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, Magnetospheric Physics: Mhd Waves And Instabilities, Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection, Space Plasma Physics: Waves And Instabilities

Scientific paper

It is argued that surface waves with wavelengths larger than the
thickness of a neutral layer that separates two different plasma regimes
can induce the tearing mode instability. Magnetic reconnection is shown
to occur on the tearing mode timescale.

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