Collisionless driven reconnection in an open system

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  • Horiuchi Ritoku
    National Institute for Fusion Science The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
  • Pei Wenbing
    The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
  • Sato Tetsuya
    National Institute for Fusion Science The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

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Particle simulation studies of collisionless driven reconnection in an open system are presented. Collisionless reconnection evolves in two steps in accordance with the formation of two current layers, i.e., an ion current layer in the early ion phase and an electron current layer in the late electron phase. After the electron current layer is formed inside the ion current layer, the system relaxes gradually to a steady state when convergent plasma flow is driven by an external electric field with a narrow input window. On the other hand, when the convergent plasma flow is driven from the wide input window, magnetic reconnection takes place in an intermittent manner, due to the frequent formation of magnetic islands in the vicinity of neutral sheet.

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  • Earth, Planets and Space

    Earth, Planets and Space 53 (6), 439-445, 2001

    Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, The Seismological Society of Japan, The Volcanological Society of Japan , The Geodetic Society of Japan , The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences

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