This paper deals with acceleration processes in the magnetotail and the processes that
enhance particle precipitation from the tail into the ionosphere through electric fields in the …

Magnetic turbulence is found in most space plasmas, including the Earth's magnetosphere,
and the interaction region between the magnetosphere and the solar wind. Recent …

Thirty rapid crossings of the magnetotail current sheet by the Cluster spacecraft during July-
October 2001 at a geocentric distance of 19 RE are examined in detail to address the …

This two-part book is devoted to classic fundamentals and current practices and
perspectives of modern plasma astrophysics. This second part discusses the physics of …

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 …

Thin current sheets represent important and puzzling sites of magnetic energy storage and
subsequent fast release. Such structures are observed in planetary magnetospheres, solar …

New results on a steady state Vlasov theory of current sheets, which generalizes the Harris
(1962) model by assuming anisotropic and nongyrotropic plasmas and using the invariant of …

Using multi‐satellite Cluster magnetic field data, we statistically examined how often an
atypical, ie, non‐Harris type, current sheet is formed. We found that a cross‐tail current sheet …

In this paper we analyze the vertical structure of the magnetotail current sheet for a few
intervals during which Cluster repeatedly crosses the neutral sheet due to fast flapping …

We statistically examine changes in the composition of two different ion species, proton and
oxygen ions, in the near‐Earth plasma sheet (X=− 16 RE∼− 6 RE) during substorm …