Current sheets in the Earth’s magnetosphere and in laboratory experiments: The magnetic field structure and the Hall effect
- Autores: Frank A.G.1, Artemyev A.V.2, Zelenyi L.M.2
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Afiliações:
- Prokhorov General Physics Institute
- Space Research Institute
- Edição: Volume 123, Nº 4 (2016)
- Páginas: 699-715
- Seção: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1063-7761/article/view/190869
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776116090119
- ID: 190869
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Resumo
The main characteristics of current sheets (CSs) formed in laboratory experiments are compared with the results of satellite observations of CSs in the Earth’s magnetotail. We show that many significant features of the magnetic field structure and the distributions of plasma parameters in laboratory and magnetospheric CSs exhibit a qualitative similarity, despite the enormous differences of scales, absolute values of plasma parameters, magnetic fields, and currents. In addition to a qualitative comparison, we give a number of dimensionless parameters that demonstrate the possibility of laboratory modeling of the processes occurring in the magnetosphere.
Sobre autores
A. Frank
Prokhorov General Physics Institute
Autor responsável pela correspondência
Email: annfrank@fpl.gpi.ru
Rússia, ul. Vavilova 38, Moscow, 119991
A. Artemyev
Space Research Institute
Email: annfrank@fpl.gpi.ru
Rússia, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow, 117997
L. Zelenyi
Space Research Institute
Email: annfrank@fpl.gpi.ru
Rússia, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow, 117997
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