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Why does steady-state magnetic reconnection have a maximum local rate of order 0.1?
Yi-Hsin Liu, M. Hesse, F. Guo +4
Simulations suggest collisionless steady-state magnetic reconnection of Harris-type current sheets proceeds with a rate of order 0.1, independent of dissipation mechanism. We argue…
A model of global magnetic reconnection rate in relativistic collisionless plasmas
Yi-Hsin Liu, Michael Hesse, Fan Guo +2
A model of global magnetic reconnection rate in relativistic collisionless plasmas is developed and validated by the fully kinetic simulation. Through considering the force balance…
Particle Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection in a Low-beta Pair Plasma
Fan Guo, Hui Li, William Daughton +2
Plasma energization through magnetic reconnection in the magnetically-dominated regime featured by low plasma beta () and/or high magnetization ($σ= B^2/(4 π…
Suppression of collisionless magnetic reconnection in asymmetric current sheets
Yi-Hsin Liu, Michael Hesse
Using fully kinetic simulations, we study the suppression of asymmetric reconnection in the limit where the diamagnetic drift speed >> Alfven speed and the magnetic shear angle is…
A Two-Fluid Study of Oblique Tearing Modes in a Force-Free Current Sheet
Cihan Akcay, William Daughton, Vyacheslav S. Lukin +1
Kinetic simulations have demonstrated that three-dimensional reconnection in collisionless regimes proceeds through the formation and interaction of magnetic flux ropes, which are…