Parallel electric fields and shear instabilities

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Jun 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983jgr....88.4805t&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 88, June 1, 1983, p. 4805-4812.

Physics

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Electric Fields, Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetospheric Instability, Particle Acceleration, Shear Layers, Auroras, Kinetic Energy, Propagation Modes, Space Plasmas

Scientific paper

The effects of variation along the magnetic field lines on Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities that are driven by transverse velocity shear are subjected to a preliminary kinetic analysis. These effects develop in the case where the parallel variation is much less than the transverse, and while producing small parallel electric fields, also cause substantial potential drops along field lines. Velocity shears measured in the auroral zone could produce longitudinal fields large enough to accelerate particles to auroral energies.

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