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The thickness of current sheets and implications for coronal heating
Frontiers in Physics, 2023 The thickness of current sheets is extremely important, especially as it relates to the onset of fast magnetic reconnection. Onset determines how much magnetic free energy can build up in a field before it is explosively released.
James A. Klimchuk +5 more
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Self-regulation of the reconnecting current layer in relativistic pair plasma reconnection [PDF]
, 2008 We investigate properties of the reconnecting current layer in relativistic pair plasma reconnection. We found that the current layer self-regulates its thickness when the current layer runs out current carriers, and so relativistic reconnection retains ...
Hesse, M., Zenitani, S.
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Collisionless current sheet equilibria [PDF]
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2017 Current sheets are important for the structure and dynamics of many plasma systems. In space and astrophysical plasmas they play a crucial role in activity processes, for example by facilitating the release of magnetic energy via processes such as magnetic reconnection. In this contribution we will focus on collisionless plasma systems.
T Neukirch, F Wilson, O Allanson
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Configuration of the Earth’s Magnetotail Current Sheet
Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 The spatial scale and intensity of Earth’s magnetotail current sheet determine the magnetotail configuration, which is critical to one of the most energetically powerful phenomena in the Earth’s magnetosphere, substorms.
Anton Artemyev +9 more
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On the Relation Between Jupiter's Aurora and the Dawnside Current Sheet
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 Jupiter's auroral emission is a spectacular phenomenon that provides insight into energy release processes related to the coupling of its magnetosphere and ionosphere. This energy release is influenced by solar wind conditions.
Y. Xu +12 more
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Patchy Reconnection in a Y-Type Current Sheet [PDF]
, 2009 We study the evolution of the magnetic field in a Y-type current sheet subject to a brief, localized magnetic reconnection event. The reconnection produces up- and down-flowing reconnected flux tubes which rapidly decelerate when they hit the Y-lines and
A Asai +13 more
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Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 On 27 June 1996, the NASA Galileo spacecraft made humanity's first flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, discovering that it is the only moon known to possess an internally generated magnetic field. Resurrecting the original Galileo Plasma Subsystem
Glyn Collinson +6 more
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Numerical Simulation of Current Sheet Formation in a Quasi-Separatrix Layer using Adaptive Mesh Refinement [PDF]
, 2011 The formation of a thin current sheet in a magnetic quasi-separatrix layer (QSL) is investigated by means of numerical simulation using a simplified ideal, low-$\beta$, MHD model.
Démoulin P. +5 more
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Bifurcation of Jovian magnetotail current sheet [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2006 Multiple crossings of the magnetotail current sheet by a single spacecraft give the possibility to distinguish between two types of electric current density distribution: single-peaked (Harris type current layer) and double-peaked (bifurcated current ...
P. L. Israelevich, A. I. Ershkovich
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Dynamics of the Magnetotail Plasma Sheet Current
Atmosphere, 2023 Magnetospheric plasma can be investigated as a continuum by adopting magnetic field B and plasma flow u as primary parameters in the Bu paradigm or as a collection of individual particles by adopting electric field E and electrical current j as primary ...
Anthony Tat Yin Lui
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