On the Physical Nature of the Magnetic-Field Freezing-in Effect in Collisionless Cosmic Plasmas

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dc.creatorDumin, Yu. V.
dc.date2000-09-21
dc.date2000-10-05
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dc.descriptionAttention is drawn to a fundamental difference between the physical mechanisms responsible for the magnetic field freezing-in effect in spatially isotropic (collisional) and strongly anisotropic (collisionless) plasmas. (The first case is characteristic of internal regions of the Sun and other stars; the second, for the solar corona, interplanetary and interstellar medium, planetary ionospheres and magnetospheres, cometary tails.) It is shown that particles of a collisionless plasma remain in the same field line during their motion because of the properties of electrodynamic drift which stem from the divergence-free character of the magnetic field and the equipotentiality of the field lines (but not as a result of the appearance of induction currents, compensating variations of the external magnetic flux through a closed contour, as in the case of isotropic conductivity of the plasma).
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dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009340
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009340
dc.identifierSolar System Research, Vol.32, No.4, 1998, pp.323-325 (Translated from Astronomicheskii Vestnik, Vol.32, No.4, 1998, pp.367-369)
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/1696
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectPlasma Physics
dc.subjectSpace Physics
dc.titleOn the Physical Nature of the Magnetic-Field Freezing-in Effect in Collisionless Cosmic Plasmas
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