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Thin current sheets in collisionless plasma: Equilibrium structure, plasma instabilities, and particle acceleration

Malova, H. V.; Popov, V. Yu.; Petrukovich, A. A. +2 more

The review is devoted to plasma structures with an extremely small transverse size, namely, thin current sheets that have been discovered and investigated by spacecraft observations in the Earth's magnetotail in the last few decades. The formation of current sheets is attributed to complicated dynamic processes occurring in a collisionless space p…