Nonlinear instability of the geomagnetotail current sheet combining the features of tearing and cross-field current instabilities

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A1, 1999, Pages 371-381

  Kropotkin, A P ^a   Trubachev, O O ^a   Lui, A T Y ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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