scholarly journals Characteristic distribution and possible roles of waves around the lower hybrid frequency in the magnetotail reconnection region

2014 ◽  
Vol 119 (10) ◽  
pp. 8228-8242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Zhou ◽  
Huimin Li ◽  
Xiaohua Deng ◽  
Shiyong Huang ◽  
Ye Pang ◽  
...  
2009 ◽  
Vol 114 (A2) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zhou ◽  
X. H. Deng ◽  
S. Y. Li ◽  
Y. Pang ◽  
A. Vaivads ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivy Bo Peng ◽  
Juris Vencels ◽  
Giovanni Lapenta ◽  
Andrey Divin ◽  
Andris Vaivads ◽  
...  

We carried out a 3D fully kinetic simulation of Earth's magnetotail magnetic reconnection to study the dynamics of energetic particles. We developed and implemented a new relativistic particle mover in iPIC3D, an implicit Particle-in-Cell code, to correctly model the dynamics of energetic particles. Before the onset of magnetic reconnection, energetic electrons are found localized close to current sheet and accelerated by lower hybrid drift instability. During magnetic reconnection, energetic particles are found in the reconnection region along thex-line and in the separatrices region. The energetic electrons are first present in localized stripes of the separatrices and finally cover all the separatrix surfaces. Along the separatrices, regions with strong electron deceleration are found. In the reconnection region, two categories of electron trajectory are identified. First, part of the electrons are trapped in the reconnection region, bouncing a few times between the outflow jets. Second, part of the electrons pass the reconnection region without being trapped. Different from electrons, energetic ions are localized on the reconnection fronts of the outflow jets.


Author(s):  
Sandeep R. Sainkar ◽  
Alice N. Cheeran ◽  
Gajendrakumar Shinde ◽  
Promod K. Sharma ◽  
Harish V. Dixit

1976 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.J. Hawryluk ◽  
S.L. Davis ◽  
J.A. Schmidt

1979 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-171
Author(s):  
A. Hoyano ◽  
S. Ohnuki ◽  
S. Adachi ◽  
T. Ohnuma

1974 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Satya ◽  
A. Sen ◽  
P. Kaw

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