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The inner structure of collisionless magnetic reconnection: The electron-frame dissipation measure and Hall fields

arXiv:1110.3103 · doi:10.1063/1.3662430 10.1063/1.4905516

Abstract

It was recently proposed that the electron-frame dissipation measure, the energy transfer from the electromagnetic field to plasmas in the electron's rest frame, identifies the dissipation region of collisionless magnetic reconnection [Zenitani et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 195003 (2011)]. The measure is further applied to the electron-scale structures of antiparallel reconnection, by using two-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The size of the central dissipation region is controlled by the electron-ion mass ratio, suggesting that electron physics is essential. A narrow electron jet extends along the outflow direction until it reaches an electron shock. The jet region appears to be anti-dissipative. At the shock, electron heating is relevant to a magnetic cavity signature. The results are summarized to a unified picture of the single dissipation region in a Hall magnetic geometry.

10 pages, 9 figures; published in Physics of Plasmas; this version contains all the corrections in PoP 21, 129906 (2014)

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