Conveners
Post-noon II
- Huishan Fu (Space Science Institute, Beihang University)
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Dr Jonathan Eastwood (Imperial College London)11/08/2015, 14:00Workshop, August 10-14InvitedMagnetic reconnection is one of the most important processes at work in space plasma environments, controlling energy storage, transport and release. In particular, it is crucial to the physics of the solar wind - magnetosphere interaction because it can explosively release stored energy, transforming it into different forms in the reconnection outflow. Magnetotail reconnection...Go to contribution page
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Dr Sergio Toledo Redondo (Swedish Institute of Space Physics)11/08/2015, 14:25Workshop, August 10-14OralRecent studies show that cold ions (energies up to tens of eV) of ionospheric origin are present in the magnetosphere and often reach the magnetopause, participating in magnetic reconnection. At low latitudes they are abundant and even dominate over the hot magnetospheric ions. Owing to their smaller gyroradius, they remain magnetized down to smaller scales than the hot ions and...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Quanming Lu (University of Science and Technology of China)11/08/2015, 14:50Workshop, August 10-14InvitedA large scale two-dimensional (2-D) particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation is performed in this paper to investigate electron acceleration in the dipolarization front (DF) region during magnetic reconnection. It is found that the DF is mainly driven by an ion outflow which also generates a positive potential region behind the DF. The DF propagates with an almost constant speed and...Go to contribution page