Аннотация:Thin current sheets are plasma structures that usually appear near reconnection regions. The
presence of the shear magnetic field is characteristic for these structures. Self-consistent ki-
netic model of magnetotail thin current sheet (TCS) is used to understand the mechanisms of
self-organization of sheared thin current sheets in a space plasma. It is shown that these config-
urations appear as a result of self-consistent evolution of some initial magnetic perturbation at
current sheet center. Two general shapes of shear TCS components are found as a function of
the transverse coordinate: symmetric and antisymmetric. We show that TCS formation goes
together with the emergence of field-aligned currents in the center of the current sheet, as a
result of north-south asymmetry of quasi-adiabatic ion motions. Ion drift currents can also
contribute to the magnetic shear evolution, but their role is much less significant, their contri-
bution depending upon the normal component Bz and the amplitude of the initial perturbation
in TCS. Parametric maps illustrating different types of TCS equilibria are presented.