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Particle simulation of auroral double layers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2009
Abstract
We report on our work to simulate auroral double layers (DL's) with ‘realistic’ particle-in-cell models. An early model simulated weak DL's formed in a self-consistent circuit but under conditions subject to the ion-acoustic instability. More recent work has focused on strong DL's formed when currentless jets are injected into a dipole magnetic field.
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