The Structure of the Dissipation Region for Component Reconnection: Particle Simulations

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Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agufmsm42c..04k&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #SM42C-04

Physics

2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2744 Magnetotail, 2753 Numerical Modeling

Scientific paper

Results from a kinetic simulation of component reconnection are presented. Reconnection proceeds in a current sheet with 100 degrees magnetic field rotation. As a result, magnetic reconnection forms distinctively different signatures from what was found from kinetic models of anti-parallel reconnection. In particular, ion and electron flow patterns are substantially distorted, the shear magnetic field component does not exhibit a quadrupolar structure, and electron orbits in the diffusion region are substantially modified. The emphasis of the investigation is on the modifications to the diffusion region, with particular emphasis on the electron diffusion zone. Here the formation and role of electron pressure anisotropies in the presence of a strong guide field is studied in detail.

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