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Kinetic-scale current sheets in the solar wind at 1 AU: Scale-dependent properties and critical current density
| العنوان: | Kinetic-scale current sheets in the solar wind at 1 AU: Scale-dependent properties and critical current density |
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| المؤلفون: | Vasko, Ivan Y., Alimov, Kazbek, Phan, Tai, Bale, Stuart D., Mozer, Forrest, Artemyev, Anton V. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | Physics (Other) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Physics - Space Physics, Physics - Plasma Physics |
| الوصف: | We present analysis of 17,043 proton kinetic-scale current sheets collected over 124 days of Wind spacecraft measurements in the solar wind at 11 Samples/s magnetic field resolution. The current sheets have thickness $\lambda$ from a few tens to one thousand kilometers with typical value around 100 km or from about 0.1 to 10$\lambda_{p}$ in terms of local proton inertial length $\lambda_{p}$. We found that the current density is larger for smaller scale current sheets, $J_0\approx 6\; {\rm nA/m^2} \cdot (\lambda/100\;{\rm km})^{-0.56}$ , but does not statistically exceed critical value $J_A$ corresponding to the drift between ions and electrons of local Alv\'{e}n speed. The observed trend holds in normalized units, $J_0/J_{A}\approx 0.17\cdot (\lambda/\lambda_{p})^{-0.51}$. The current sheets are statistically force-free with magnetic shear angle correlated with current sheet spatial scale, $\Delta \theta\approx 19^{\circ}\cdot (\lambda/\lambda_{p})^{0.5}$. The observed correlations are consistent with local turbulence being the source of proton kinetic-scale current sheets in the solar wind, while mechanisms limiting the current density remain to be understood. Comment: 7 pages + list of references, 5 figures |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.3847/2041-8213/ac4fc4 |
| الوصول الحر: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.15256Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.2112.15256 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.3847/2041-8213/ac4fc4 |
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