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Particle Acceleration in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

P. K. Browning  and
G. E. Vekstein
P. K. Browning
Affiliation:
Dept of Physics, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
G. E. Vekstein
Affiliation:
Dept of Physics, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK

Abstract

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We investigate the acceleration of charged particles in the framework of collisionless reconnection. A steady reconnection scenario is considered, with a two dimensional X-point magnetic field geometry having also a uniform field component transverse to the plane of the X-point field, and an inductive electric field generating an inflow of particles. Test particle trajectories are studied, and the energy spectra of the accelerated particles are determined.

Type
Session VI: The Solar Wind and Heliosphere
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 203: Recent Insights into the Physics of the Sun and Heliosphere: Highlights from Soho and Other Space Missions , 2001 , pp. 555 - 557
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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