Speaker
Dr
nicolas aunai
(CNRS/LPP)
Description
Collisionless magnetic reconnection is enabled by electron
scale mechanisms and its
dynamic is mainly controlled by ion scale processes.
Whenever the to plasmas on both
sides of the current sheet have different properties, a lot of
well-known processes and
their associated signatures are vastly changed. In this
presentation, I will explain how
one can highlight the regions of interest regarding electron
scale processes in
asymmetric reconnection, and discuss about the role of the
initial condition on
reconnection models, showing new results obtained from
simulations initialized with
an asymmetric kinetic equilibrium which properties are
macroscopically and
microscopically different from usual models.
Primary author
Dr
nicolas aunai
(CNRS/LPP)
Co-authors
Dr
Gerard Belmont
(CNRS/LPP)
Mr
Jeremy Dargent
(CNRS/LPP)
Dr
Michael Hesse
(NASA/GSFC)
Dr
Nicolas Dorville
(LPP)
Dr
benoit lavraud
(CNRS/IRAP)
