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An experiment to model a system of field-aligned currents in a dense inner magnetospheric plasma is performed under laboratory conditions for the first time. The magnitude and length of the flow of field-aligned currents were measured as a function of the magnetic field.
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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 18-12-00080-P; and by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 18-2921018, as part of State Task no. 0243-2021-0003.
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Chibranov, A.A., Berezutsky, A.G., Efimov, M.A. et al. Laboratory Modeling of a System of Field-Aligned Currents Generated by Flows of Inner Magnetospheric Laser Plasma. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 86, 830–832 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873822070127
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