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Transversal small-scale MHD perturbations in space plasma with magnetic surfaces

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This paper analyzes transversal small-scale perturbations in arbitrary three-dimensional (3D) spatially nonuniform space plasma systems with magnetic surfaces and deduces a system of equations for these perturbations. It shows that a dipole magnetic field can have perturbations of two different polarizations. Within dipole geometry, it derives equations for MHD-eigenmodes and investigates stability of the perturbations.

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  1. Space Research Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, National Space Agency of Ukraine, pr. Akademika Glushkova 40, Kiev-187, 03680, Ukraine

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Original Russian Text © O.K. Cheremnykh, V.V. Danilova, 2011, published in Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, 2011, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 63–78.

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Cheremnykh, O.K., Danilova, V.V. Transversal small-scale MHD perturbations in space plasma with magnetic surfaces. Kinemat. Phys. Celest. Bodies 27, 98–108 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0884591311020036

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