Relativistic electron production during driven magnetic reconnection

Details Relativistic electron production during driven magnetic reconnection Relativistic electron production during driven magnetic reconnection

Jul 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006georl..3313104p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 13, CiteID L13104

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetic Reconnection (7526, 7835), Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, Space Plasma Physics: Particle Acceleration

Scientific paper

Two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations are used to determine the mechanism for producing relativistic electrons during externally driven magnetic reconnection in a plasma sheet configuration that models the near-Earth growth phase magnetotail. The dominant process is found to be of the inverse Landau-damping type in which those electrons with velocity component vx ~ 0 at the X line are accelerated across the tail by the inductive reconnection electric field Ey. This process produces a power-law energy spectrum for the electrons with a slope of ~5-6, in agreement with recent observations.

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