Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29l...4h&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 12, pp. 4-1, CiteID 1563, DOI 10.1029/2001GL014714
Physics
Plasma Physics
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Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Magnetic Fields, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, Space Plasma Physics: Numerical Simulation Studies
Scientific paper
Results from a kinetic simulation of component reconnection are presented. Reconnection proceeds in a current sheet with 104 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. Electron pressure nongyrotropies can support collisionless magnetic reconnection even when electron motion in diffusion region is strongly affected by the guide magnetic field.
Hesse Michael
Hoshino Masahiro
Kuznetsova Masha
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