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Yoon & Lui 2004

Yoon, P.H. and Lui, A.T.Y. (2004). Model of ion- or electron-dominated current sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research 109: doi: 10.1029/2004JA010555. issn: 0148-0227.

The present report discusses a current sheet model constructed on the time-independent Vlasov equation, which can depict either an ion- or electron-dominated current sheet, with the classic Harris solution as a special case. It is shown that approximate analytical solution compares extremely well with the exact numerical solution.

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Keywords
Magnetospheric Physics, Plasma sheet, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics, Current systems, Space Plasma Physics, Magnetic reconnection, non-Harris, ion-dominated, electron-dominated, embedded current sheet

Journal
Journal of Geophysical Research
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