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| Titel |
Embedded current sheet in the Earth's magnetotail |
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A. A. Petrukovich, A. V. Artemyev, L. M. Zelenyi, H. V. Malova, R. Nakamura |
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EGU General Assembly 2012
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Artikel
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Englisch
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PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 14 (2012) |
| Datensatznummer |
250065187
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Thin current sheets are one of key plasma objects responsible
for accumulation and explosive release of free energy.
With modern multispacecraft observations it is possible to
directly detect thin current sheets in the Earth’s magnetotail,
in particular during growth phase and after substorm onsets.
Thin sheets are usually embedded in a thicker plasma sheet.
We discuss several recently introduced
quantitative parameters of a thin current sheet: embedded sheet
boundary, density and temperature of current-carrying particles,
as well as tools to estimate down-tail gradient. |
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