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Collisionless Kinetic Theory of Oblique Tearing Instabilities
Scott D. Baalrud, Amitava Bhattacharjee, William Daughton
The linear dispersion relation for collisionless kinetic tearing instabilities is calculated for a Harris equilibrium. In contrast to the conventional 2D geometry, which considers…
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…
Influence of the Lower Hybrid Drift Instability on the onset of Magnetic Reconnection
Paolo Ricci, J. U. Brackbill, W. Daughton +1
Two-dimensional and three-dimensional kinetic simulation results reveal the importance of the Lower-Hybrid Drift Instability LHDI to the onset of magnetic reconnection. Both explic…