[PDF] Top 20 Energy release and conversion by reconnection in the magnetotail

... the magnetotail, the dissipation results primarily from electron inertia which causes nongyrotropy of the electron pressure tensor ...overall energy conversion suggests that the MHD results may be ... See full document

... between reconnection and interchange/ballooning in the magnetotail related to substorms and flow ...of magnetotail dynamics, exploring onset and progression of ...to reconnection, if the ... See full document

... magnetic reconnection in the tail of the Earth’s ...of reconnection in thin current sheets in the ...the energy principle for two-dimensional collisionless ... See full document

... 2001), magnetotail reconnection was studied with emphasis on the kinetic (particle) ...the reconnection point, the post-plasmoid plasma sheet (PPPS) and the boundary layer are ...free energy ... See full document

... that, reconnection associated magnetic fluctuations within fast plasma flows in the deep tail exhibit kinked spectra and the scalings can presumably be associated with plasma turbulence over magnetohydrodynamic ... See full document

... ion energy spectrogram (pitch angle averaged), ion pitch angle spectrogram (energy averaged), electron energy spectrogram (pitch angle averaged), electron pitch angle spectrogram (energy av- ... See full document

... terrestrial magnetospheric bow shock. When the supersonic solar wind plasma carrying the interplanetary magnetic field encounters Earth’s dipole magnetic field, the bow shock is formed, which slows down the solar wind ... See full document

... magnetotail might be affected by the large-scale condi- tions. On the other hand, during the solar flare, we rarely observe > 500 MeV proton by the ground-based neu- tron monitors, the so-called ground level ... See full document

... keV energy channel measured by RAPID, the electron anisotropy for all PEACE electron ener- gies (70 eV–24 keV) defined by (field-aligned flux – perpen- dicular flux)/(field-aligned flux + perpendicular flux), the ... See full document

... Subsequent reconnection of the lobe magnetic field in the magnetotail transports energy into the closed magnetic field ...the reconnection rate in the magnetotail during two days of an ... See full document

... also modeled using test particle tracing utilizing MHD-simulated electromagnetic fields (Birn and Runov, 2016), showing that the counterstreaming low-energy ion beams are formed by freshly reconnected particles ... See full document

... magnetic reconnection process provides a physical mechanism by which magnetic energy is explosively con- verted into plasma kinetic and thermal energies, result- ing in the generation of plasma ...magnetic ... See full document

... and Reconnection In this section, we examine the physical mechanism of the plasmoid-induced-reconnection in more ...where reconnection has just begun and a plasmoid, with a length L p and a width W p ... See full document

... Magnetic reconnection, Coronal mass ejection, Current sheet and Magnetic ...local release of magnetic energy stored previously in a compact region of upper chromospheres or lower ...magnetic ... See full document

... We interpret that the cause of neutral line separation in our simulations is the unsuitability of a discrete finite vol- ume grid for representing accurately the flow pattern occur- ring here. As can be seen in Figs. 2 ... See full document

... the magnetotail on 11 Oc- tober 2001, when Cluster recorded the current sheet for an extended period including the entire duration of the recon- nection ...of reconnection is associated with a sudden ... See full document

... C4, indicating that the magnetic flux tubes observed by those spacecraft map closer to the reconnection site. The simul- taneous suprathermal electron flux increase observed by C2 and C4 at “C” indicates that this ... See full document

... 2-D reconnection configuration have greatly clari- fied the microphysics by which inflowing electrons and ions decouple from the magnetic field in the diffusion region and then flow away from the neutral line ... See full document

... the reconnection site us- ing properties of magnetic field and plasma velocity distur- bances in the regions surrounding the reconnection plasma ...non-steady reconnection model with a finite-sized ... See full document

... Figure S2: Cassini radio and plasma wave observations and ENLIL solar wind simulation 511. results showing the inferred upstream solar wind conditions during the event: (a) electric 51[r] ... See full document