“…The shear of the magnetic field is neglected. Mathematically, this work is based on the set of equations for the coupled Alfvén and slow magnetoacoustic modes derived in Klimushkin (1997Klimushkin ( , 1998 and Cheremnykh and Danilova (2011), and the formalism developed for the study of the spatial structure of the unstable modes in the terrestrial magnetosphere (Klimushkin, 2006;Klimushkin and Chen, 2006;Mazur, Fedorov, and Pilipenko, 2013;Cheremnykh, Klimushkin, and Kostarev, 2014;Cheremnykh, Klimushkin, and Mager, 2016). In Section 2 we review the derivation of the governing equations that describe the radial structure of the perturbations.…”