Inertial Magnetic Field Reconnection and Magnetospheric Substorms
- 2 April 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 30 (14) , 642-644
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.30.642
Abstract
We describe and calculate the growth rate of a magnetohydrodynamic neutral-sheet instability due to electron-inertia terms in the infinite-conductivity Ohm's law. The results are compared with an approximate Vlasov-equation calculation, and are shown to be particularly germane to the geomagnetic-tail instability.Keywords
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