Cause of super-thermal electron heating during magnetotail reconnection

[1] We present a candidate mechanism for the energization of super-thermal electrons during magnetic reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail. By analyzing in-situ measurements of electron distribution functions we characterize the relative energy gain of the electrons as a function of energy, Δ...

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Main Authors: Egedal-Pedersen, Jan, Le, A., Zhu, Y., Daughton, W., Oieroset, M., Phan, T., Lin, Robert P.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76291