Conveners
Post-noon III
- Daniel Graham (IRF - Uppsala)
Dr
Li-Jen Chen
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
12/08/2015, 14:00
Workshop, August 10-14
Invited
The electron diffusion region (EDR) holds the ultimate mystery of how
magnetic
reconnection can occur in a collisionless plasma,
and is the target region of the first science priority for the newly
launched
Magnetospheric Multi-scale (MMS) mission.
Processes of elctron acceleration, mixing and heating in the EDR can be
understood by analyzing the electron distribution functions
with...
Dr
Rongsheng Wang
(Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
12/08/2015, 14:25
Workshop, August 10-14
Oral
One long outstanding issue in the study of magnetic
reconnection is exactly where and how
electrons
are energized, although the observations have demonstrated
that a substantial part of magnetic
energy is converted into energetic electrons in reconnection.
Here, we present the first evidence of
electron acceleration by parallel electric field (up to -20
mV/m) carried by the...
Dr
Maria Elena Innocenti
(University of Leuven, Belgium)
12/08/2015, 14:50
Workshop, August 10-14
Oral
We describe here the first observation of switch-off of the in plane
tangential
component of the magnetic field in Particle In Cell (PIC) simulations of
magnetic
reconnection, a situation reminding of Petschek’s switch-off. Switch-off
is obtained
through a slow shock / rotational discontinuity compound structure.
Two external slow
shocks located in correspondence of the...
