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流体压缩和剪切在磁重联电子碰撞中的作用

The roles of fluid compression and shear in electron energization during magnetic reconnection

Xiaocan Li, Fan Guo, Hui Li, Joachim Birn

摘要:

空间和天体物理重联点的粒子加速是磁重联研究中尚未解决的重要问题。早期的动力学模拟已经确定了与粒子漂移运动相关的几种加速机制。在这里,我们表明,对于足够大的系统,由于粒子漂移运动的湍流过程可以被描述为流体的压缩和剪切,并且剪切湍流与高能粒子的压力各向异性成正比。通过对全动力学模拟结果的分析,我们发现在弱引导场作用下,高能粒子重联的加速主要是压缩效应,当引导场占重联分量的50%时,压缩效应和剪切效应相当.空间分布的这些扰动效应表明,重联排气,收缩岛,岛合并区是三个最重要的区域压缩和剪切加速。本研究将粒子导引中心漂移运动引起的粒子运动与高能粒子输运理论中的背景流体运动引起的粒子运动联系起来。为建立大尺度重联加速(如太阳耀斑)的粒子输运模型提供了基础。

英文摘要:

Particle acceleration in space and astrophysical reconnection sites is an important unsolved problem in studies of magnetic reconnection. Earlier kinetic simulations have identified several acceleration mechanisms that are associated with particle drift motions. Here, we show that, for sufficient large systems, the energization processes due to particle drift motions can be described as fluid compression and shear, and that the shear energization is proportional to the pressure anisotropy of energetic particles. By analyzing results from fully kinetic simulations, we show that the compression energization dominates the acceleration of high-energy particles in reconnection with a weak guide field, and the compression and shear effects are comparable when the guide field is 50\% of the reconnecting component. Spatial distributions of those energization effects reveal that reconnection exhausts, contracting islands, and island merging regions are the three most important regions for compression and shear acceleration. This study connects particle energization by particle guiding-center drift motions with that due to background fluid motions, as in the energetic particle transport theory. It provides foundations for building particle transport models for large-scale reconnection acceleration such as those in solar flares.

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