Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998jgr...103..199k&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 103, Issue A1, p. 199-214
Physics
Plasma Physics
52
Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics: Numerical Modeling, Magnetospheric Physics: Storms And Substorms
Scientific paper
Both electron inertia and nongyrotropic effects were analyzed using 2 1/2-dimensional hybrid simulations of collisionless magnetic reconnection. The traditional hybrid approach which treats ions as particles and electrons as an isotropic massless fluid was modified. In the new model the electron mass dependence was introduced both in the expression for the electric field and in the evolution equation of the full electron pressure tensor. This comprehensive hybrid model includes full ion kinetics, incorporates Hall effects, describes the leading terms in electron dynamics responsible for breaking the frozen magnetic flux constraint and allows to consider arbitrary ion/electron temperature and mass ratios. We demonstrate that the kinetic quasi-viscous electron inertia associated with nongyrotropic pressure effects dominates over the electron bulk flow inertia in controlling the structure of the dissipation region around the neutral X line. The reconnection electric field based on the nongyrotropic pressure tends to reduce the current density and to relax gradients in the vicinity of the X line (similar to the localized anomalous viscosity). On the other hand, the reconnection electric field based on electron bulk flow inertia tends to require an increased current density, with gradient scales comparable with the electron skin depth. The dependence on the ion/electron temperature ratio and on the current carrier also is discussed. An analytical analysis which supports the results of the numerical simulations is also presented.
Hesse Michael
Kuznetsova Masha M.
Winske Dan
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