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非对称磁重联中电子扩散区的新认识

A new Look at the Electron Diffusion Region in Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection

Michael Hesse, Cecilia Norgren, Paul Tenfjord, James L. Burch, Yi-Hsin Liu, Naoki Bessho, Li-Jen Chen, Shan Wang, Håkon Kolstø, Susanne F. Spinnangr, Robert E. … 展开作者

Michael Hesse, Cecilia Norgren, Paul Tenfjord, James L. Burch, Yi-Hsin Liu, Naoki Bessho, Li-Jen Chen, Shan Wang, Håkon Kolstø, Susanne F. Spinnangr, Robert E. Ergun, Therese Moretto, Norah K. Kwagala

摘要:

本文对无碰撞磁重联中电子扩散区的结构作了新的研究。该研究基于非对称磁重联的粒子模拟,其中除了密度和磁场梯度之外,还包括穿过电流层的温度梯度。我们发现X点、流动停滞点和局部电流密度峰值都不重合。对流滞点和电流密度峰值附近的电流和能量平衡分析一致地表明,电流耗散与非各向异性电子压力的发散有关。此外,当与电子流速的剪切型梯度结合时,相同的压力项也用于保持局部热能以防止对流损失。这些效应与对称磁重联中的效应相似。此外,我们在这里发现显着的影响有关的对流的电流,我们可以涉及到一个广义的抗磁漂移的nongyrotropic压力发散。因此,只有部分压力用于耗散电流密度。然而,先前的结论,即重联电场的作用是保持电流密度,这是一个对称的系统,在这里也适用。最后讨论了EDR中电子分布函数的相关特征。

英文摘要:

A new look at the structure of the electron diffusion region in collisionless magnetic reconnection is presented. The research is based on a particle-in-cell simulation of asymmetric magnetic reconnection, which include a temperature gradient across the current layer in addition to density and magnetic field gradient. We find that none of X-point, flow stagnation point, and local current density peak coincide. Current and energy balance analyses around the flow stagnation point and current density peak show consistently that current dissipation is associated with the divergence of nongyrotropic electron pressure. Furthermore, the same pressure terms, when combined with shear-type gradients of the electron flow velocity, also serve to maintain local thermal energy against convective losses. These effects are similar to those found also in symmetric magnetic reconnection. In addition, we find here significant effects related to the convection of current, which we can relate to a generalized diamagnetic drift by the nongyrotropic pressure divergence. Therefore, only part of the pressure force serves to dissipate the current density. However, the prior conclusion that the role of the reconnection electric field is to maintain the current density, which was obtained for a symmetric system, applies here as well. Finally, we discuss related features of electron distribution function in the EDR.

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