Marginal stability of thin current sheets in the Earth's magnetotail

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 2-4, 2008, Pages 325-333

  Zelenyi, Lev ^a   Artemiev, Anton ^b   Malova, Helmi ^a,b   Popov, Victor ^a,b  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Current sheet; Magnetosphere; Magnetotail; Plasma instabilities; Tearing mode

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMAS;

CURRENT SHEET; MAGNETOTAIL PLASMA SYSTEM; SELF-CONSISTENT MODEL; TEARING MODE;

GEOMAGNETISM;

EID: 39149129968     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2007.08.019     Document Type: Article

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