Some features of auroral electric fields as seen in 2D numerical simulations
Abstract
Results of 2D plasma simulations, which show the formation of V-shaped double layers with larger perpendicular than parallel electric field amplitudes, the excitation of electrostatic ion-cyclotron waves and the occurrence of return currents, are presented and related to auroral observations.
- Publication:
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Advances in Space Research
- Pub Date:
- 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0273-1177(84)90353-3
- Bibcode:
- 1984AdSpR...4b.511T
- Keywords:
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- Auroral Electrojets;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Electric Fields;
- Electron Plasma;
- Ion Cyclotron Radiation;
- Current Sheets;
- Electric Current;
- Field Aligned Currents;
- Geophysics