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[Text] / A. Divin [et al.] // Phys. Plasmas. - 2010. - Vol. 17, Is. 12. - Ст. 122102, DOI 10.1063/1.3521576. - Cited References: 42. - The present work is supported partially by the Onderzoekfonds KU Leuven (Research Fund KU Leuven) and by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant Agreement No. 218816 (SOTERIA project, www.soteria- space.eu). Additional support is provided by RFBR (Grant No. 09-05-91000-ANF-a). V.S.S. thanks ISSI for hospitality and financial support. The simulations were conducted on the resources of the Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum (VSC) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. . - ISSN 1070-664XРУБ Physics, Fluids & Plasmas

Аннотация: A new model of the electron pressure anisotropy in the electron diffusion region in collisionless magnetic reconnection is presented for the case of antiparallel configuration of magnetic fields. The plasma anisotropy is investigated as source of collisionless dissipation. By separating electrons in the vicinity of the neutral line into two broad classes of inflowing and accelerating populations, it is possible to derive a simple closure for the off-diagonal electron pressure component. The appearance of these two electron populations near the neutral line is responsible for the anisotropy and collisionless dissipation in the magnetic reconnection. Particle-in-cell simulations verify the proposed model, confirming first the presence of two particle populations and second the analytical results for the off-diagonal electron pressure component. Furthermore, test-particle calculations are performed to compare our approach with the model of electron pressure anisotropy in the inner electron diffusion region by Fujimoto and Sydora [Phys. Plasmas 16, 112309 (2009)]. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3521576]


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Divin, A.; Markidis, S.; Lapenta, G.; Semenov, V.S.; Erkaev, N.V.; Еркаев, Николай Васильевич; Biernat, H.K.

[Text] / D. B. Korovinskiy [et al.] // J. Geophys. Res-Space Phys. - 2011. - Vol. 116. - Ст. A05219, DOI 10.1029/2010JA015942. - Cited References: 45. - This work is supported by the Austrian Science Fund under projects I193-N16 and P21051-N16, by RFBR grant 09-05-91000-ANF-a, and by SPSU grant 11.38.47.2011. V. S. Semenov also thanks ISSI for hospitality and financial support. . - ISSN 2169-9380РУБ Astronomy & Astrophysics

Аннотация: A 2.5-D analytical electron Hall magnetohydrodynamic model of steady state magnetic reconnection in a collisionless compressible plasma with a constant electron temperature is developed. It is shown that as in the incompressible case, the solution of the Grad-Shafranov equation for the magnetic potential is a basis for the problem analysis. The formation of the double electric layers and layers of low-density plasma, mapping the magnetic separatrices, are investigated. It is found that the formation of depletion layers should not be governed by the out-of-plane magnetic field, but rather, the origin of these layers lies inside the electron diffusion region. The double electric layers are found to be thin separatrices-elongated sheets, whose cross sections are of the order of the electron diffusion region half width. These charged layers provide the presence of the strong electric field orthogonal to the in-plane projection of the magnetic field, which forces electrons to accelerate into the out-of-plane direction. Outside of the double electric layers, the condition of quasi-neutrality of the plasma is found to be fulfilled to high accuracy.


Доп.точки доступа:
Korovinskiy, D.B.; Semenov, V.S.; Erkaev, N.V.; Еркаев, Николай Васильевич; Divin, A.V.; Biernat, H.K.; Mostl, U.V.