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{{Infobox paper
| title = The Evidence for Electrical Currents in Cosmic Plasma
| author = [[Anthony L Peratt]]
| published = 1990
| journal = [[IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science]]
| volume = [[18]]
| number = [[1]]
| pages = 26-32
}}

==Abstract==

With the advent of fully three-dimensional, fully electromagnetic, particle-in-cell simulations, investigations of Birkeland currents and magnetic-field-aligned electric fields have become possible in plasmas not accessible to in situ measurement, i.e., in plasmas having the dimensions of galaxies or systems of galaxies. The necessity for a three-dimensional electromagnetic approach derives from the fact that the evolution of magnetized plasmas involves complex geometries, intense self-fields, nonlinearities, and explicit time-dependence. A comparison of the synchrotron radiation properties of simulated currents to those of extragalactic sources provides observational evidence for galactic-dimensional Birkeland currents.

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