2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4440-0
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Electron dynamics in collisionless magnetic reconnection

Abstract: Magnetic reconnection provides a physical mechanism for fast energy conversion from magnetic energy to plasma kinetic energy. It is closely associated with many explosive phenomena in space plasma, usually collisionless in character. For this reason, researchers have become more interested in collisionless magnetic reconnection. In this paper, the various roles of electron dynamics in collisionless magnetic reconnection are reviewed. First, at the ion inertial length scale, ions and electrons are decoupled. Th… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1

Citation Types

2
10
0

Year Published

2012
2012
2017
2017

Publication Types

Select...
6

Relationship

2
4

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 19 publications
(12 citation statements)
references
References 63 publications
2
10
0
Order By: Relevance
“…Electron energization at magnetid islands has been reported with the Cluster observations during reconnections in the Earth's magnetosphere [122][123][124]. This provides support to the above scenarios.…”
Section: Studies On Magnetic Islands Of Reconnections Along the Cme Csupporting
confidence: 65%
“…Electron energization at magnetid islands has been reported with the Cluster observations during reconnections in the Earth's magnetosphere [122][123][124]. This provides support to the above scenarios.…”
Section: Studies On Magnetic Islands Of Reconnections Along the Cme Csupporting
confidence: 65%
“…First, at the ion inertial length scale, ions and electrons are decoupled (Pritchett 2001;Lu et al 2011). The resulting Hall effect determines the reconnection electric field.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Therefore, these direct observational signatures suggest that the electrons are accelerated to relativistic energy by reconnecting electric field inside the diffusion region. On the other hand, the role of the electron dynamics inside the diffusive region of RCS is very important to understand the collissionless magnetic reconnection [7]. The 2D and 3D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations was widely used to trace the typical electron trajectories [8,9].…”
mentioning
confidence: 99%