Electron acceleration and heating in collisionless magnetic reconnection

Details Electron acceleration and heating in collisionless magnetic reconnection Electron acceleration and heating in collisionless magnetic reconnection

2003-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305081v1

Phys.Plasmas 10 (2003) 3554-3560

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1598207

We discuss electron acceleration and heating during collisionless magnetic reconnection by using the results of implicit kinetic simulations of Harris current sheets. We consider and compare electron dynamics in plasmas with different \beta values and perform simulations up to the physical mass ratio. We analyze the typical trajectory of electrons passing through the reconnection region, we study the electron velocity, focusing on the out-of-plane velocity, and we discuss the electron heating along the in-plane and out-of-plane directions.

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