Coupling of waves and reconnection in guide field, magnetopause-like current sheets

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufmsm53b0423s&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #SM53B-0423

Physics

7835 Magnetic Reconnection, 7843 Numerical Simulation Studies, 7871 Waves And Instabilities, 2724 Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, 2753 Numerical Modeling

Scientific paper

Using a three-dimensional Vlasov code we investigate the unstable generation of waves and reconnection in thin, collisionless current sheets with guide fields and in magnetopause-like configurations. The amplitude of the saturated waves appears to critically control the moment of initiation of reconnection, it determines the mode of reconnection, whether it is essentially two-dimensional or three-dimensional as well as the reconnection rate. In the guide field case of non-antiparallel reconnection a transition from regular, well structured, to patchy reconnection and percolation is possible, but in the asymmetric magnetopause-like case we recover the formation of islands reminding flux transfer events.

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