Large-Scale Kinetic Modeling of Magnetotail Dynamics

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Jan 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001ssrv...95..257p&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews, v. 95, Issue 1/2, p. 257-271 (2001).

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The large-scale kinetic technique has been used in the last decade to address many of the intriguing features of the magnetotail revealed by spacecraft observations of the region. In this paper, we present a brief overview of the results achieved by using this technique and present our most recent effort, a time-dependent, self-consistent model of the magnetotail in which the ion current is used to update the ambient magnetic field. This model indicates that the magnetotail exhibits intrinsic variability in the absence of external stimuli and reproduces many of the observed features of the magnetotail, including periodic ion precipitation profiles. Enhancements of this model promise to reveal more of the intricacies of the magnetotail when applied to studying the branching and percolation of the cross-tail current and to the influence of electron and ion behavior on macroscopic processes before and during substorms.

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