Jet deflection by very weak guide fields during magnetic reconnection

Details Jet deflection by very weak guide fields during magnetic reconnection Jet deflection by very weak guide fields during magnetic reconnection

2010-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/1011.0103v1

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Plasma Physics

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Simulations of antiparallel reconnection have shown collimated electron jets outflowing from the x-point, and associated highly elongated "outer electron diffusion regions." New PIC simulations with ion/electron mass ratios as large as 1836 show that jets are deflected towards the magnetic separatrix by out-of-plane guide fields, Bg, as small as 0.05 times the asymptotic reconnecting field, B0. The outer electron diffusion region is distorted and broken up, but the diffusion rate is unchanged. These results are interpreted in terms of electron dynamics and are compared to recent measurements of reconnection jets in the magnetosheath.

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