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- Title
Asymmetric configurations of a thin current sheet with a constant normal magnetic field component.
- Authors
Mingalev, O. V.; Mingalev, I. V.; Malova, Kh. V.; Zelenyi, L. M.; Artem'ev, A. V.
- Abstract
A possible mechanism for the formation of a quasi-equilibrium asymmetric current sheet in the magnetospheric tail due to the asymmetry of peripheral plasma sources is analyzed using a self-consistent particle- in-cell model of a thin collisionless current sheet with a constant normal magnetic field component. For the case in which the current sheet is produced by only one source, quasi-equilibrium sheet configurations with maximum possible asymmetry are obtained for different input parameters of the model. In such configurations, the equilibrium force balance is satisfied with high accuracy and the shape of the current density profile remains nearly symmetric, but the current sheet itself is slightly shifted from the source as compared to the symmetric case. The configurations obtained using numerical simulations are compared with those calculated using the previous analytical model of a thin current sheet. It is found that the results provided by these models agree well both qualitatively and quantitatively.
- Subjects
MAGNETIC domain; FERROMAGNETIC materials; MAGNETIC fields; EQUILIBRIUM; PLASMA gases; IONIZED gases; SYMMETRY (Physics)
- Publication
Plasma Physics Reports, 2009, Vol 35, Issue 1, p76
- ISSN
1063-780X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1063780X09010097