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非对称磁重联的混合模型和完全动力学模型的比较:共面场和引导场位形

Comparison between hybrid and fully kinetic models of asymmetric magnetic reconnection: coplanar and guide field configurations

Nicolas Aunai, Michael Hesse, Seiji Zenitani, Maria Kuznetsova, Carrie Black, Rebekah Evans, Roch Smets

摘要:

发生在无碰撞环境中的磁重联是一个多尺度过程,涉及离子和电子动力学过程。由于它们的质量小,电子尺度很难在数值和卫星数据中解决,因此,了解重联过程的整体演变是否受到电子动力学性质的影响,或者在假设更简单的流体电子模型时保持不变是至关重要的。本文研究了一般情况下的不对称电流片,其中的磁场的振幅和密度通过不连续性变化的问题。比较了共面场和引导场系统中磁重联的全动力学模拟和混合动力学模拟。这些模型共享初始条件,但在电子建模方面有所不同。结果发现,系统的整体演化,包括重连率,是非常相似的两种模式之间。最好的协议被发现在引导场系统中,它限制粒子比共面的,在那里的局部性的时刻被违反的电子反弹运动。与通常的理解相反,重联在导场系统中比在共面系统中快得多。两种模型都显示了这种趋势,表明这种现象是由离子动力学效应而不是电子动力学效应驱动的。

英文摘要:

Magnetic reconnection occurring in collisionless environments is a multi-scale process involving both ion and electron kinetic processes. Because of their small mass, the electron scales are difficult to resolve in numerical and satellite data, it is therefore critical to know whether the overall evolution of the reconnection process is influenced by the kinetic nature of the electrons, or is unchanged when assuming a simpler, fluid, electron model. This paper investigate this issue in the general context of an asymmetric current sheet, where both the magnetic field amplitude and the density vary through the discontinuity. A comparison is made between fully kinetic and hybrid kinetic simulations of magnetic reconnection in coplanar and guide field systems. The models share the initial condition but differ in their electron modeling. It is found that the overall evolution of the system, including the reconnection rate, is very similar between both models. The best agreement is found in the guide field system, which confines particle better than the coplanar one, where the locality of the moments is violated by the electron bounce motion. It is also shown that, contrary to the common understanding, reconnection is much faster in the guide field system than in the coplanar one. Both models show this tendency, indicating that the phenomenon is driven by ion kinetic effects and not electron ones.

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