Publication Date:
2019-07-12
Description:
Equilibria of low free energy have been constructed for magnetotail plasmas (Bhattacharjee, 1987). This model is extended to obtain axisymmetric states which have the structure of flux ropes containing field-aligned currents. An interesting feature of these equilibria is a chain of magnetic islands along the tail axis. Theoretical results are compared with observations from ISEE 1 and ISEE 2 on flux ropes (Elphic et al., 1986).
Keywords:
GEOPHYSICS
Type:
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 94; 479-484
Format:
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