Speaker
Thomas Neukirch
(School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews)
Description
Current sheets play an important role in many aspects of solar and space plasma activity. For example, a vast number of collisionless current sheets can be observed in the solar wind (e.g. Vasko et al., 2022). A common problem in the context of collisionless current sheets is having to find particle distribution functions which self-consistently generate a known magnetic field profile.
We shall present an analytical approach to this problem and will discuss examples in which the method works as well as others in which it fails.
Vasko, I., Alimov, K., Phan, T., Bale, S.D., Mozer, F.S., and Artemyev, A.V., 2022, ApJ 926, L19
Author
Thomas Neukirch
(School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews)
Co-author
Sophie Boswell
