Ballooning-interchange Instability at the Inner Edge of the Plasma Sheet as a Driver of Auroral Beads: High-resolution Global MHD Simulations
Kareem Sorathia1, Viacheslav G Merkin2, Aleksandr Y Ukhorskiy3, Binzheng Zhang4, John Lyon5, Jeffrey Garretson6, Evgeny V Panov7 and Shinichi Ohtani3, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, (7)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States