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Decay of correlations and the collisionless conductivity in the geomagnetic tail
Author(s) -
Horton W.,
Tajima T.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/gl017i002p00123
Subject(s) - earth's magnetic field , substorm , plasma sheet , physics , conductivity , plasma , electrical resistivity and conductivity , geophysics , computational physics , magnetosphere , magnetic field , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics
The collisionless electrical conductivity is calculated for the geomagnetic tail from the stochastic orbits in the plasma sheet. The new conductivity formula is important for the stochastic heating of the plasma sheet and modifies the Galeev‐Zelenyi formulas for the collisionless reconnection growth rate for geomagnetic substorms.