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Bending Waves on Current Sheets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

G. Bertin  and
B. Coppi
G. Bertin
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Scuola Normale Superiore, 56100 Pisa, Italy
B. Coppi
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Scuola Normale Superiore, 56100 Pisa, Italy

Abstract

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Current sheets are found to be subject to bending waves described by a dispersion relation indicating that these are, essentially, modified surface Alfvén waves. Applications to the observed magnetic polarity sectors in the solar wind and to other astrophysical environments, such as planetary magnetospheres, are suggested.

Type
Session VII
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 107: Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities , 1985 , pp. 491 - 496
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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