In-Situ Observations of Magnetic Reconnection and Associated Energetic Particle Acceleration in Near-Earth Space

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Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsm22a..01r&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SM22A-01

Physics

2744 Magnetotail, 7807 Charged Particle Motion And Acceleration, 7835 Magnetic Reconnection (2723, 7526), 7845 Particle Acceleration, 7863 Turbulence (4490)

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Magnetic reconnection is considered to play an important role for the acceleration of energetic particles in laboratory plasmas, planetary magnetospheres and solar corona. Despite of much observational evidence that energetic particles are produced in reconnection regions, the acceleration mechanisms are yet poorly understood. The near-Earth space is an excellent laboratory to study the acceleration mechanisms since multi-spacecraft coordinated measurements of energetic particles and electromagnetic fields in reconnection regions are available in-situ. Here we present Cluster spacecraft observations in a thin reconnecting current sheet in the magnetotail and discuss the acceleration mechanisms of ~ 100 keV electrons. We also present Cluster observations in the terrestrial magnetosheath to show evidence of reconnection in turbulent plasma and discuss associated particle acceleration.

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