Two‐scale ion meandering caused by the polarization electric field during asymmetric reconnection

Two‐scale ion meandering caused by the polarization electric field during asymmetric reconnection

Abstract Ion velocity distribution functions (VDFs) from a particle‐in‐cell simulation of asymmetric reconnection are investigated to reveal a two‐scale structure of the ion diffusion region (IDR). Ions bouncing in the inner IDR are trapped mainly by the electric field normal to the current sheet (N...

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Main Authors: Shan Wang, Li‐Jen Chen, Michael Hesse, Naoki Bessho, Daniel J. Gershman, John Dorelli, Barbara Giles, Roy B. Torbert, Craig J. Pollock, Robert Strangeway, Robert E. Ergun, James L. Burch, Levon Avanov, Benoit Lavraud, Thomas E. Moore, Yoshifumi Saito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-08-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
Subjects:
ion meandering motion
magnetic reconnection
polarization electric field
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069842
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