Quasiadiabatic description of nonlinear particle dynamics in typical magnetotail configurations

D. L. Vainchtein (1, 2) , J. Büchner (3) , A. I. Neishtadt (1) , L. M. Zelenyi (1)

1 IKI - Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2 Department of Mechanical & Environmental Engineering
3 MPI Aeronomie - Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie

In the present paper we discuss the motion of charged particles in three different regions of the Earth magnetotail: in the region with magnetic field reversal and in the vicinities of neutral line of X- and O-types. The presence of small parameters (ratio of characteristic length scales in and perpendicular to the equatorial plane and the smallness of the electric field) allows us to introduce a hierarchy of motions and use methods of perturbation theory. We propose a parameter that plays the role of a measure of mixing in the system.

Domaines: Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]; Sciences de la Terre

D. L. Vainchtein, J. Büchner, A. I. Neishtadt, L. M. Zelenyi. Quasiadiabatic description of nonlinear particle dynamics in typical magnetotail configurations. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 2005, 12 (1), pp.101-115. ⟨hal-00302510⟩