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Role of Oxygen Ions in the Structure of the Current Sheet of the Near-Earth Magnetotail

Zelenyi, L. M.; Malova, Kh. V.; Mingalev, I. V. +5 more

A numerical model is used to study the possibility of a thin current sheet formation in the near-Earth magnetotail in the growth phase of a substorm for a wide range of parameters of longitudinal countermoving ion flows that create current sheet. The simulation results make it possible to conclude that the current sheet can be formed by oxygen ion…