Explosive energy release by disruption of current sheets

dc.contributor.author	Lakhina, G.S.
dc.contributor.author	Tsurutani, B.T.
dc.date.accessioned	2015-09-29T09:25:10Z
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-12T09:32:06Z
dc.date.available	2015-09-29T09:25:10Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-12T09:32:06Z
dc.date.issued	1998
dc.identifier.citation	Physica Scripta, v.T74, p.67-70, 1998, doi: 10.1088/0031-8949/1998/T74/013	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/510
dc.description.abstract	Current sheets can occur in almost all cosmic plasmas like planetary magnetospheres, stars, and galaxies. The disruption of current sheets releases the excess magnetic energy stored in the plasma system via magnetic reconnection. Ion tearing mode instability can cause spontaneous disruption of the forced current sheets. It is found that trapped electrons have a strong stabilizing effect on the excitation of this instability. The presence of background turbulence can effectively lead to the untrapping of the electron orbits and thus, facilitate excitation of ion tearing instability. The role of current sheet disruptions in magnetospheric substorms, solar flares and coronal transients are discussed.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Current sheets	en_US
dc.subject	Cosmic plasmas	en_US
dc.subject	Planetary magnetospheres	en_US
dc.subject	Solar flares	en_US
dc.subject	Explosive energy release	en_US
dc.title	Explosive energy release by disruption of current sheets	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.identifier.accession	091021