Regimes of the Electron Diffusion Region in Magnetic Reconnection

The electron diffusion region during magnetic reconnection lies in different regimes depending on the pressure anisotropy, which is regulated by the properties of thermal electron orbits. In kinetic simulations at the weakest guide fields, pitch angle mixing in velocity space causes the outflow elec...

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Main Authors: Le, Ari Yitzchak, Egedal-Pedersen, Jan, Ohia, Obioma O., Daughton, W., Karimabadi, H., Lukin, V. S.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81327