X-line sliding in an asymmetric ion flow

Details X-line sliding in an asymmetric ion flow X-line sliding in an asymmetric ion flow

Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsm31a1712t&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SM31A-1712

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Plasma Physics

2724 Magnetopause And Boundary Layers, 6939 Magnetospheric Physics (2700), 7800 Space Plasma Physics, 7835 Magnetic Reconnection (2723, 7526), 7839 Nonlinear Phenomena (4400, 6944)

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We have carried out two-dimensional full-particle simulations of an asymmetric current sheet (like the Earth's magnetopause) with a reconnected layer. When the ion flows cross obliquely the X-line, the X-line starts to slide with its speed comparable to the ion flow at the X-line. If (1) Stagnation point of the ion flows are decoupled from the X-line, and (2) Those flows form an oblique pattern about the X-line, the sufficient condition of the X-line sliding is concluded. The presence of an anti-parallel shear flow along the current sheet, or an out-of-plane guide field is found to settle that condition.

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