Magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas - Prescribed fields

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Nov 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990jgr....9518833b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 95, Nov. 1, 1990, p. 18833-18848. Research supported by the U.S. Navy.

Physics

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Collisionless Plasmas, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetohydrodynamics, Space Plasmas, Earth Magnetosphere, Hydrodynamic Equations

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The structure of the dissipation region during magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasma is investigated by examining a prescribed two-dimensional magnetic x line configuration with an imposed inductive electric field E(y). The calculations represent an extension of recent MHD simulations of steady state reconnection (Biskamp, 1986; Lee and Fu, 1986) to the collisionless kinetic regime. It is shown that the structure of the x line reconnection configuration depends on only two parameters: a normalized inductive field and a parameter R which represents the opening angle of the magnetic x lines.

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