On the predominance of oblique disturbances in the supersonic shear flow instability of the geomagnetic tail boundary
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A study is made of the influence of the longitudinal magnetic field and density inhomogeneity on the supersonic shear flow instability at the magnetospheric tail boundary. It is shown that the most unstable are slow oblique (3D) disturbances, with a phase velocity approaching at a sufficiently large angle (with respect to the flow direction) the magnetosonic velocity. Their growth rate and spectral width are much larger than those of the usually considered longitudinal (2D) supersonic disturbances. The magnetic field reduces the compressibility effect and, unlike the subsonic case, has a noticeable destabilizing effect on the excitation of oblique disturbances.
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