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Inertial magnetic reconnection effects on the electron dynamics in a three-dimensional configuration
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Perona, A., Borgogno, D. and Grasso, D. (2012) Inertial magnetic reconnection effects on the electron dynamics in a three-dimensional configuration. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 401 . Article number 012019. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/401/1/012019 ISSN 1742-6596.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/401/1/012019
Abstract
The three-dimensional response of a population of thermal electrons to a collision-less magnetic reconnection process is investigated through a relativistic Hamiltonian guiding centre formulation of the particle dynamics. The resulting electron equations have been implemented in a test-particle code that evolves the spatial position and the velocity of the electrons according to the fields calculated by the numerical solutions of a two-fluid reconnection model. In particular, we consider here reconnection events triggered by single helicity perturbations. By following the evolution of the electron distribution function we can quantify the number of suprathermal electrons generated during the nonlinear phase of reconnection and observe how the increase in the electron energy deforms the moments of the electron distribution function with respect to the corresponding fluid quantities.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Physics: Conference Series | ||||
Publisher: | Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 1742-6596 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 401 | ||||
Page Range: | Article number 012019 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1088/1742-6596/401/1/012019 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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