Month: September 2022

PURE ENERGY. “The magnetotail plasma sheet is a highly dynamic and structured region. Plasma flows in this region are not laminar, and during most times the net Earthward plasma flow imposed by the large-scale convection pattern is composed of short-lived (1–10 min) bursts of fast flow while the ambient plasma velocity distribution is very nearly isotropic.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

MAGNETOTAIL PLASMA SHEET. “These flows are most likely created by localized reconnection events initiated either by internal tail processes or by external driving conditions https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

EXPANDED SCALE. “While such bursts of fast flow can be observed during all magnetospheric activity conditions, they become more numerous, more intense, and have larger scale sizes during magnetically active conditions.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

BOILING WITH ACTIVITY. “As this is the region which feeds the inner magnetosphere with both plasma, energetic particles, and magnetic flux, the plasma sheet dynamics is crucially important for space weather applications.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

SOLAR PLASMAS. “As the magnetospheric activity conditions are largely controlled by the stability properties of the cross-tail current sheet, and as the magnetotail current sheet shares many of the properties of dynamically important current sheets found e.g. in the solar plasmas, the dynamics of the cross-tail current has been intensively studied in recent years.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn

PURE MAGNETISM. “As the IMF turns southward, dayside reconnection changes the conditions at the magnetospheric boundaries and begins to increase the open flux content in the magnetotail. In order to maintain pressure balance between the plasma sheet plasma pressure and the lobe magnetic pressure, the cross-tail current intensifies and the plasma sheet is compressed.” (IMF= interplanetary magnetic field). https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1 View in LinkedIn