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| Paper: |
Reconnection-generated Plasma Flows Interacting with the Near-Earth Plasma Sheet |
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359, Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows: Astronum-2006 |
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190 |
| Authors: |
Pritchett, P.L. |
| Abstract: |
The propagation of a reconnection-generated plasma flow into a magnetic dipole-dominated region is investigated using 3-D PIC simulations. The front of the jet is found to filament due to an interchange instability with a wavelength determined by kyρiz ~ 3. |
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