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Instability of the cometary plasma tail — the instability in a plasma sheet

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Published 1 May 2011 2011 National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences and IOP Publishing Ltd.
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1674-4527/11/5/011

Abstract

We consider the instability of the cometary plasma tail which is composed of a neutral sheet, two lobes of the ion tail and solar wind. The plasma is assumed to be highly conductive and incompressible. The unstable state yields a magnetic field which is perpendicular to the tail axis. Our result is consistent with findings about plasma from the International Cometary Explorer (ICE).

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