51 research outputs found
Laboratory simulation of field-aligned currents
A summary of progress during the period Apr. 1992 to Mar. 1993 is provided. Objectives of the research are (1) to simulate, via laboratory experiments, the three terms of the field-aligned current equation; (2) to simulate auroral-arc formation processes by configuring the boundary conditions of the experimental chamber and plasma parameters to produce highly localized return currents at the end of a field-aligned current system; and (3) to extrapolate these results, using theoretical and computational techniques, to the problem of magnetospheric-ionospheric coupling and to compare them with published literature signatures of auroral-arc phenomena
Observation of transverse and longitudinal modes in non‐neutral electron clouds confined in a magnetic mirror
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Interpretation of the Electron-Inertia Experiment for Metals with Positive Hall Coefficients
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