Memories, maxims, and motives
Abstract
This account displays continuing development flowing from my Ph.D. project. MHD was sufficient for the discovery of reconnection and observations on spacecraft provided supporting evidence. If the rate of reconnection is to be predicted, more sophisticated plasma theory is needed. Extensive analysis of wave-particle interactions is described. They were thought to be important in the neutral sheet, but another mechanism, electron viscosity, is described and no conclusion is reached.
- Publication:
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Journal of Geophysical Research
- Pub Date:
- October 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1029/94JA00105
- Bibcode:
- 1994JGR....9919189D
- Keywords:
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- Auroras;
- Geomagnetism;
- Histories;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Waves;
- Magnetohydrodynamics;
- Plasma Physics;
- Scientists;
- Wave-Particle Interactions;
- Current Density;
- Neutral Sheets;
- Wave Propagation;
- Magnetospheric Physics: Current systems;
- Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics;
- Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma convection;
- Magnetospheric Physics: Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions