Ion-ion kink instability in the magnetotail: 2. Three-dimensional full particle and hybrid simulations and comparison with observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A11, 2003, Pages

  Karimabadi, H ^a   Pritchett, P L ^b   Daughton, W ^c   Krauss Varban, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kelvin helmholtz instability; Kinetic simulations; Kink mode; Magnetotail instabilities; Vlasov theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874785181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010109     Document Type: Article

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