The Cessation of Magnetic Reconnection

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Dec 2002

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #SM51C-01

Physics

6939 Magnetospheric Physics, 7827 Kinetic And Mhd Theory, 7835 Magnetic Reconnection, 7843 Numerical Simulation Studies

Scientific paper

Collisionless magnetic reconnection has been a subject of continuing research for many years. Over the last ten years, considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the physics of the dissipation region. More recently, a number of research activities have focused on the onset of magnetic reconnection. The question of how and why magnetic reconnection terminates, however, remains largely unaddressed by past and present research. In order to shed some light on this problem, we present results from particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic reconnection, which take into account the presence of different plasmas in the reconnection inflow region. We will show that sufficiently massive plasma populations, such as potentially provided by oxygen beams of ionospheric origin, can substantially slow down or terminate the reconnection dynamics. Further emphasis will be on the acceleration of such plasmas in the reconnection process.

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