Relaxation of magnetotail plasmas with field-aligned currents

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Jan 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989jgr....94..479p&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 94, Jan. 1, 1989, p. 479-484.

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Earth Magnetosphere, Field Aligned Currents, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetic Relaxation, Space Plasmas, International Sun Earth Explorers, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability

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Equilibria of low free energy have been constructed for magnetotail plasmas (Bhattacharjee, 1987). This model is extended to obtain axisymmetric states which have the structure of flux ropes containing field-aligned currents. An interesting feature of these equilibria is a chain of magnetic islands along the tail axis. Theoretical results are compared with observations from ISEE 1 and ISEE 2 on flux ropes (Elphic et al., 1986).

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