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The Maximum Particle Energy Gain During Magnetic Reconnection
Zhiyu Yin, Harry Arnold, James F Drake +1
The factors that control the maximum energy attained by protons and electrons during magnetic reconnection are investigated analytically and using large-scale simulations with the…
Thermodynamics of Shear Equilibration During Magnetic Reconnection Onset in Mixed-Equilibrium Current Sheets
Dominic Payne, Marc Swisdak, James Drake +1
Magnetic shear across the polarity inversion line (PIL) plays an important role in the explosive nature of reconnection onset and in the equilibration of current sheets, acting as…
The impact of Alfvenic shear flow on magnetic reconnection and turbulence
Tamar Ervin, Alfred Mallet, Stefan Eriksson +9
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental and omnipresent energy conversion process in plasma physics. Novel observations of fields and particles from Parker Solar Probe (PSP) have sh…
Probing Proton versus Electron Heating and Energization during Magnetic Reconnection
Zhiyu Yin, James F. Drake, Marc Swisdak
The mechanisms controlling the relative heating and energization of electrons and protons during magnetic reconnection are explored. Simulations are carried out with the kglobal mo…
The effect of shear flow on the resistive tearing instability
Alfred Mallet, Stefan Eriksson, Marc Swisdak +1
We develop a new scaling theory for the resistive tearing mode instability of a current sheet with a strong shear flow across the layer. The growth rate decreases with increasing f…
Ion Beam Instabilities during Solar Flare Energy Release
A. Fitzmaurice, J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak
The linear stability of waves driven by ion beams produced during solar flare energy release are explored to assess their role in driving abundance enhancements in minority species…