Distinctive features of internally driven magnetotail reconnection
Abstract Onset of reconnection in a tail‐like equilibrium with a finite Bz magnetic field component is studied using 3‐D explicit particle‐in‐cell simulations. Due to a region of a tailward Bz gradient the onset develops spontaneously as the magnetic flux release instability with dominant earthward...
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2017-04-01
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| Series: | Geophysical Research Letters |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL072784 |
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