Collisionless reconnection in two-dimensional magnetotail equilibria

Details Collisionless reconnection in two-dimensional magnetotail equilibria Collisionless reconnection in two-dimensional magnetotail equilibria

Jul 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991jgr....9611523p&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 96, July 1, 1991, p. 11,523-11,538.

Physics

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Collisionless Plasmas, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetotails, Earth Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric Instability, Neutral Sheets

Scientific paper

A two-dimensional particle simulation model based on the Darwin approximation to Maxwell's equations for studying collisionless reconnection in the magnetotail has been developed. Simulations of the pure ion tearing mode in a thin current sheet with normal B(z) field component demonstrate that in this limit this mode grows more slowly than expected based on previous analytic estimates. The saturation level of the tearing instability greatly surpasses estimates based on a simple trapping argument. The effect of the normal field component on the evolution of the tearing instability is considered. It is found that a normal field of even a few percent on axis strongly inhibits the growth of the instability.

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