[PDF] Top 20 Electron scale structures of thin current sheets in magnetic reconnection

... of reconnection, which are of its steady state, the results presented here are expected to be more prominent during the initial time dependent phase of reconnection after its onset in an electron ... See full document

... extremely thin current sheets do form in ...such current sheets both from Cluster (Wygant et ...of electron diffu- sion region reported by Mozer et ...extremely thin ... See full document

... the electron- scale structures form very quickly, in a time of the order of tens of electron cyclotron periods, but evolve very slowly af- ter their formation (Jain and Sharma, ...the ... See full document

... Introduction Magnetic reconnection due to thin current sheets in sheared magnetic field configurations plays an important role for the dynamics of many space ...with ... See full document

... collisionless magnetic reconnection in the tail of the Earth’s ...of reconnection in thin current sheets in the ...by magnetic flux transfer to the tail, leads to the ... See full document

... the magnetic field to penetrate the inner region of the current layer, generates a local nor- mal field component B z and, by producing short wavelength magnetic vortices and vertexes, it may ignite ... See full document

... of electron acceleration efficiency is different in different ...these structures is 5, while the number of events that flux pileup region was detected is ...for magnetic island are 2 and 8, and for ... See full document

... enhanced electron nongyrot- ropy and forming the crescent-shaped electron distribu- tion on the magnetosphere side of the EDR (Shay et ...the magnetic fields are not reversed in the thin ... See full document

... Yet, magnetic signatures at the edge of the plasma sheet suggest that these flows could be accompanied by Earthward directed current filaments confined to the edge of the plasma sheet as shown in ...the ... See full document

... small- scale magnetic structures populating the beam-electron in- ertial range of size λ ∼ 2π λ eb = 2π c/ω b ...the current sheet, one has λ eb > λ e , the condition that k −1 ... See full document

... mal magnetic field component b n , since this component con- trols the curvature radius of the field ...to current carrying ions, which become temporarily trapped in the vicinity of ...between ... See full document

... The magnetic reconnections have also been investigated with magnetic confinement device 1 ...the magnetic field data, the magnetic reconnection experiments in the laboratory provide ... See full document

... 4.4 Notes on future works A nicely developed magnetic island has the horizon- tal/vertical aspect ratio of ∼2. Then when an island having the wavelength of ∼12D is nicely developed, since the ver- tical ... See full document

... chaotic magnetic fields all over the clus- ter volume, except at the very center where the cD galaxy is standstill with respect to the ...well-ordered magnetic corona will develop around each cD galaxy, ... See full document

... with magnetic reconnection can be classified into four types, and that those distributions have a memory of plasma ...electric current is enhanced dur- ing magnetic reconnection, we ... See full document

... A possible interpretation of the banded structure in Fig. 4 is that the emission is composed of three or more field- aligned, sheet-like structures in which waves are generated. A cross section of such a ... See full document

... meaning magnetic reconnec- tion in the wider sense, is determined by ion motions, includ- ing those that are substantially nonadiabatic in thin layers ad- jacent to the diffusion ...of magnetic ... See full document

... detailed structures of the electron diffusion region in anti-parallel magnetic recon- nection were analyzed based on two-dimensional fully ki- netic particle-in-cell ...The electron diffusion ... See full document

... driven reconnection using the full kinetic PIC model presented in this ...(out-of-plane) magnetic field from the Ohm’s ...the electron density changes adiabatically in the Hall re- gion, which is ... See full document

... explosive magnetic energy conversion involved, the fast reconnection mechanism, involving Alfvenic plasma jets by standing slow shocks, is most responsible for these flare phenomena (Shibata, 1999; ... See full document