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dc.contributor.authorWilson, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorNeukirch, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorAllanson, Oliver Douglas
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-05T10:30:10Z
dc.date.available2017-09-05T10:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-17
dc.identifier.citationWilson , F , Neukirch , T & Allanson , O D 2017 , ' Force-free collisionless current sheet models with non-uniform temperature and density profiles ' , Physics of Plasmas , vol. 24 , no. 9 , 092105 . https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997703en
dc.identifier.issn1070-664X
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 250642054
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: dd07f286-160b-4199-9d5e-3924db9964ac
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85027703766
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-7597-4980/work/36106394
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000412107400009
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11614
dc.descriptionThe authors acknowledge the support of the Science and Technology Facilities Council via the consolidated grants ST/K000950/1 and ST/N000609/1 and the doctoral training grant ST/K502327/1 (O. A.), and the Natural Environment Research Council via grant no. NE/P017274/1 (Rad-Sat) (O. A.). F. W. and T. N. would also like to thank the University of St Andrews for general financial supporten
dc.description.abstractWe present a class of one-dimensional, strictly neutral, Vlasov-Maxwell equilibrium distribution functions for force-free current sheets, with magnetic fields defined in terms of Jacobian elliptic functions, extending the results of Abraham-Shrauner [Phys. Plasmas 20, 102117 (2013)] to allow for non-uniform density and temperature profiles. To achieve this, we use an approach previously applied to the force-free Harris sheet by Kolotkov et al. [Phys. Plasmas 22, 112902 (2015)]. In one limit of the parameters, we recover the model of Kolotkov et al. [Phys. Plasmas 22, 112902 (2015)], while another limit gives a linear force-free field. We discuss conditions on the parameters such that the distribution functions are always positive and give expressions for the pressure, density, temperature, and bulk-flow velocities of the equilibrium, discussing the differences from previous models. We also present some illustrative plots of the distribution function in velocity space.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPhysics of Plasmasen
dc.rightsCopyright 2017 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4997703]en
dc.subjectQA Mathematicsen
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subject.lccQAen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titleForce-free collisionless current sheet models with non-uniform temperature and density profilesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorScience & Technology Facilities Councilen
dc.contributor.sponsorScience & Technology Facilities Councilen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Applied Mathematicsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Mathematics and Statisticsen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997703
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberST/K000950/1en
dc.identifier.grantnumberST/N000609/1en


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