NASA NTRS · 19930032334
Quasi-steady current sheet structures with field-aligned flow
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The paper discusses the characteristics of quasi-steady plasma and field structures with field-aligned flow. Explicit solutions are developed for modeling the compressible flow around a plasmoid in the distant magnetotail. The expected and observed plasmoid signatures are found. Field signatures outside the plasmoid are typically those of encounters of traveling compression region: a north-south signature of Bz accompanied by an enhancement of Bx.
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Birn, J.. 1992-11-01. Quasi-steady current sheet structures with field-aligned flow. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19930032334
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