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无碰撞薄电流片中磁引导场的产生

Magnetic guide field generation in thin collisionless current sheets

R. A. Treumann, R. Nakamura, W. Baumjohann

摘要:

在空间等离子体(如磁层尾或磁层顶电流层)中的薄($Δ<$/少数$λ_i$)无碰撞电流片中,磁场可以{通过非磁性韦伯不稳定性\citep{weibel1959}的作用从热涨落水平}增长。这种不稳定性是由从“离子扩散”(离子惯性霍尔)区域进入内部电流(电子惯性)区域的逆流电子流入驱动的,当流入的电子在小于电子回旋半径和$<$几个$λ_e$的尺度上变得非磁性时,周围的磁场被排除在该区域之外。结果表明,在磁层尾条件下,韦伯场达到可观测振幅$|{\bf b}_{\rm W}|\sim 1$ nT需要$\sim$ 20-40 e折叠时间($\sim$ 10-20 s).在逆流入流中,这些场主要是引导场类型。这在磁引导场重联中是有意义的。已知引导字段可能提供突发重连接\citep的开始所需的条件{drake 2006,pritchett 2005 a,pritchett 2006 a,cassak 2007}。在非对称流入的韦伯场本身可能会演变成一个组件正常的电流片,这也可能有助于重联开始。

英文摘要:

In thin ($Δ<$ few $λ_i$) collisionless current sheets in a space plasma like the magnetospheric tail or magnetopause current layer, magnetic fields can grow {from thermal fluctuation level by the action of the non-magnetic Weibel instability \citep{weibel1959}.}The instability is driven by the counter-streaming electron inflow from the `ion diffusion' (ion inertial Hall) region into the inner current (electron inertial) region from where the ambient magnetic fields are excluded when released by the inflowing electrons which become non-magnetic on scales smaller than the electron gyroradius and $<$ few $λ_e$. It is shown that under magnetospheric tail conditions it takes $\sim$ 20-40 e-folding times ($\sim$ 10-20 s) for the Weibel field to reach observable amplitudes $|{\bf b}_{\rm W}|\sim 1$ nT. In counter-streaming inflows these fields are predominantly of guide field type. This is of interest in magnetic guide field reconnection. Guide fields are known to possibly providing the conditions required for the onset of bursty reconnection \citep {drake2006,pritchett2005a,pritchett2006a,cassak2007}. In non-symmetric inflows the Weibel field might itself evolve a component normal to the current sheet which could also contribute to reconnection onset.

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