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Signatures of Secondary Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection Driven by Kink Instability of a Flux Rope
S. Markidis, G. Lapenta, G. L. Delzanno +5
The kinetic features of secondary magnetic reconnection in a single flux rope undergoing internal kink instability are studied by means of three-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simula…
Separatrices: the crux of reconnection
Giovanni Lapenta, Stefano Markidis, Andrey Divin +2
Reconnection is one of the key processes in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas: it is the opposite of a dynamo. Looking at energy, a dynamo transforms kinetic energy in magnetic…
Electromagnetic Energy Conversion in Downstream Fronts from 3D Kinetic Reconnection
Giovanni Lapenta, Martin Goldman, David Newman +2
The electromagnetic energy equation is analyzed term by term in a 3D simulation of kinetic reconnection previously reported by \citet{vapirev2013formation}. The evolution presents…