MMS Observations of a Compressed Current Sheet: Importance of the Ambipolar Electric Field.
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.105101
Abstract: Spacecraft data reveal a nonuniform ambipolar electric field transverse to the magnetic field in a thin current sheet in Earth's magnetotail that leads to intense E×B velocity shear and nongyrotropic particle distributions. The E×B drift… read more here.
Keywords: electric field; compressed current; ambipolar electric; current sheet ... See more keywords