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DOI 10.1063/1.4905706. - Cited References:85. - Study of the current sheet stability was supported by Russian ScientificFund (RSF) Grant No. 14-17-00072. The work of H.K.B. was supported bythe Austrian Science Fund (FWF): I193-N16. 3D simulations were conductedusing resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure forComputing (SNIC) at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, Grant Nos. 2014-1-176 and2014-8-38. N.V.E. and D.B.K. thank also ISSI for hospitality andfinancial support. Authors thank the reviewer for his substantial helpin improving the manuscript.
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Аннотация: The role of the dawn-dusk magnetic field component in stabilizing of the magnetotail flapping oscillations is investigated in the double-gradient model framework (Erkaev et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 235003 (2007)), extended for the magnetotail-like configurations with non-zero guide field By. Contribution of the guide field is examined both analytically and by means of linearized 2-dimensional (2D) and non-linear 3-dimensional (3D) MHD modeling. All three approaches demonstrate the same properties of the instability: stabilization of current sheet oscillations for short wavelength modes, appearing of the typical (fastest growing) wavelength lambda(peak) of the order of the current sheet width, decrease of the peak growth rate with increasing B-y value, and total decay of the mode for B-y similar to 0: 5 in the lobe magnetic field units. Analytical solution and 2D numerical simulations claim also the shift of lambda(peak) toward the longer wavelengths with increasing guide field. This result is barely visible in 3D simulations. It may be accounted for the specific background magnetic configuration, the pattern of tail-like equilibrium provided by approximated solution of the conventional Grad-Shafranov equation. The configuration demonstrates drastically changing radius of curvature of magnetic field lines, R-c. This, in turn, favors the "double-gradient" mode (lambda R-c) in one part of the sheet and classical "ballooning" instability (lambda R-c) in another part, which may result in generation of a "combined" unstable mode. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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Swedish Inst Space Phys, SE-75121 Uppsala, Sweden.
Russian Acad Sci, Inst Computat Modelling, Siberian Branch,
Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia.
Siberian Fed Univ,
Krasnoyarsk 660041, Russia.
Space Res Inst RAS, Moscow 117997, Russia.
Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, Div Theoret Phys, Gatchina 188300, Russia.
Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Wiskunde, Ctr Plasma Astrofys, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.
KTH Royal Inst Technol, PDC Ctr High Performance Comp, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden.
Austrian Acad Sci, Space Res Inst, A-8042 Graz, Austria.
Graz Univ, Inst Phys, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
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Доп.точки доступа: Korovinskiy, D.B.; Divin, A.V.; Erkaev, N.V.; Еркаев, Николай Васильевич; Semenov, V.S.; Artemyev, A.V.; Ivanova, V.V.; Ivanov, I.B.; Lapenta, G.; Markidis, S.; Biernat, H. K.; Russian Scientific Fund (RSF) [14-17-00072]; Austrian Science Fund[(FWF): I193-N16]; Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC)at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden [2014-1-176, 2014-8-38]; ISSI