SELF-CONSISTENT STRUCTURE OF A THIN ANISOTROPIC CURRENT SHEET

Authors
KROPOTKIN AP MALOVA HV SITNOV MI
Citation
Ap. Kropotkin et al., SELF-CONSISTENT STRUCTURE OF A THIN ANISOTROPIC CURRENT SHEET, J GEO R-S P, 102(A10), 1997, pp. 22099-22106
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary","Astronomy & Astrophysics","Metereology & Atmospheric Sciences
Journal title
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
ISSN journal
21699380 → ACNP
Volume
102
Issue
A10
Year of publication
1997
Pages
22099 - 22106
Database
ISI
SICI code
2169-9380(1997)102:A10<22099:SSOATA>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
An approximate solution of the system of Vlasov-Maxwell equations for a collisionless current sheet with strongly anisotropic ion species (t he hulk velocity outside the sheet is much greater than the thermal on e) and sharply curved magnetic field lines (the curvature radius is mu ch less than the ion gyroradius) is obtained in the form of a universa l function with two asymptotics and an iterative procedure in between. The magnetic held spatial scaling suggested by Francfort and Pellat [ 1976] is confirmed analytically.