Rapid large-scale magnetic-field dissipation in a collisionless current sheet via coupling between kelvin-Helmholtz and lower-hybrid drift instabilities

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 950011-950014

  Shinohara, I ^a   Suzuki, H ^b   Fujimoto, M ^b   Hoshino, M ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

CURRENT INSTABILITIES;

PLASMA THEORY;

EID: 0035959090     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.095001     Document Type: Article

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