Observation of lower hybrid drift instability in the diffusion region at a reconnecting magnetopause

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Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufmsm21c..02b&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #SM21C-02

Physics

7835 Magnetic Reconnection, 7867 Wave/Particle Interactions

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Intense lower hybrid waves are observed in the Hall current region of a reconnecting current sheet at the earth's magnetopause. Large measured cross-field drifts and density gradients are the likely sources of free energy through a lower hybrid drift instability (LHDI), which is stabilized near the neutral point where the plasma β is large. Harris neutral sheet and linear models are fitted to the data and inferred current density profiles are compared to the observed current density from particle measurements. We estimate the contribution of LHDI anomalous resistivity to the parallel electric field and show that it is more than 100 times smaller than the measured parallel field at the separator boundaries and essentially zero near the neutral point, leaving gradient electron pressure tensor and inertial terms or anomalous resistivity from higher frequency instabilities to support any parallel fields there and, hence, control the reconnection process.

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