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Streltsov & Lotko 1999
Streltsov, A.V. and Lotko, W. (1999). Small-scale, “electrostatic” auroral structures and Alfvén waves. Journal of Geophysical Research 104: doi: 10.1029/1998JA900153. issn: 0148-0227.

The results from a numerical investigation of the influence of the plasma micro-turbulence on the structure and amplitude of macroscopic electromagnetic fields and currents inside the alfv¿nic field line resonance (FLR) layers are presented. Without analyzing an exact mechanism causing microturbulence, the plasma anomalous resistivity (AR) in the simplest form is included in the linear, reduced two-fluid MHD/kinetic model, developed earlier to describe dispersive alfv¿nic FLRs in a dipole magnetic geometry. Computations show the following: (1) A fundamental FLR forming near L=7.5 in the plasma with AR produces small-scale, intense disturbances of E at low altitudes, just above the microturbulence layer, without any significant disturbances of B with the same spatial structure. (2) Plasma AR causes a parallel electric field inside the microturbulence layer, sufficient to accelerate electrons up to 1 kV energy over a distance ≈1000 km along the magnetic field line. (3) A numerical model of the alfv¿nic FLR, including the effect of the plasma AR even in the simplest form, reproduces the main features of the data measured by FAST satellite in the nightside auroral magnetosphere with remarkable exactness. ¿ 1999 American Geophysical Union

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Magnetospheric Physics, Auroral phenomena, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions, Magnetospheric Physics, MHD waves and instabilities, Magnetospheric Physics, Numerical modeling, Magnetospheric Physics, Polar cap phenomena, Space Plasma Physics, Waves and instabilities
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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