Kinetic simulations of secondary reconnection in the reconnection jet

doi:10.1002/2014JA020969

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	Kinetic simulations of secondary reconnection in the reconnection jet
	Huang, S. Y. ; Zhou, M. ; Yuan, Z. G. ; Fu, H. S. ; He, J. S. ; Sahraoui, F. ; Aunai, N. ; Deng, X. H. ; Fu, S. ; Pang, Y. ; Wang, D. D.
刊名	JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
	2015
关键词	magnetic reconnection secondary reconnection reconnection jet magnetic island MAGNETIC RECONNECTION DIPOLARIZATION FRONTS EARTHS MAGNETOTAIL COLLISIONLESS RECONNECTION TRANSIENT RECONNECTION ELECTRON ACCELERATION ENERGETIC ELECTRONS DIFFUSION REGION FIELD CLUSTER
DOI	10.1002/2014JA020969
英文摘要	Magnetic reconnection, as one important energy dissipation process in plasmas, has been extensively studied in the past several decades. Magnetic reconnection occurring in the downstream of a primary X line is referred to as secondary reconnection. In this paper, we used kinetic simulations to investigate the secondary reconnection in detail. We found that secondary reconnection is reversed by the compression caused by the outflowing jet originating from the primary reconnection site, which results in the erosion of the magnetic island between the two X lines within similar to 3(ci)(-1). We show the observational signatures expected in electromagnetic fields and plasma measurements in the Earth's magnetotail, associated with this mechanism. These simulation results could be applied to interpret the signatures associated with the evolution of earthward magnetic islands in the Earth's magnetotail.; National Natural Science Foundation of China [41174140, 41374168, 41174147, 41404132]; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation; Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20110141110043]; Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities [2042014kf0017]; LABEX Plas@Par [ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02]; Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province [20142BCB23006]; ANR [11-JS56-0008]; SCI(E); ARTICLE; shiyonghuang@whu.edu.cn; 8; 6188-6198; 120
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/417508]
专题	地球与空间科学学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Huang, S. Y.,Zhou, M.,Yuan, Z. G.,et al. Kinetic simulations of secondary reconnection in the reconnection jet[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS,2015.
APA	Huang, S. Y..,Zhou, M..,Yuan, Z. G..,Fu, H. S..,He, J. S..,...&Wang, D. D..(2015).Kinetic simulations of secondary reconnection in the reconnection jet.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS.
MLA	Huang, S. Y.,et al."Kinetic simulations of secondary reconnection in the reconnection jet".JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS (2015).