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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Asymmetric Reconnection"”.
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Modeling the formation of current sheets in symmetric and asymmetric reconnection
… thesis we investigate the nature of magnetic reconnection using analytic and numerical methods. We consider configurations which are symmetric across the reconnection layer relevant to the Earth magnetotail, as well as configurations asymmetric in density and temperature across the …
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"Smoking-Gun" Observables of Magnetic Reconnection: Spatiotemporal Evolution of Electron Characteristics Throughout the Diffusion Region
<p>How does magnetic reconnection happen in a collisionless plasma? Knowledge of electron-scale dynamics is necessary to answer this outstanding question of plasma physics. Based on fully kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of symmetric reconnection, the spatiotemporal evolution of velocity …
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A Study of Reconnection Poleward of the Cusp: Cluster and Polar
… region (IDR) in symmetric, collisionless reconnection. These features have been shown by numerical simulations under moderate density asymmetries (~10), and theoretical analyses. However, very few studies have addressed these issues with in-situ observations, particularly at high magnetic …