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AN: SM21B-0196    [PDF]
TI: Coupling of Waves and Reconnection in Thin, Collisionless Current Sheets
AU: Silin, I
EM: buechner@linmpi.mpg.de
AF: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie, Max-Planck-Str.2, Katlenburg-Lindau, 37191 Germany
AU: * Buechner, J
EM: buechner@linmpi.mpg.de
AF: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie, Max-Planck-Str.2, Katlenburg-Lindau, 37191 Germany
AB: Using a three-dimensional Vlasov code we investigate the coupling of lower hybrid waves and reconnection in thin, collisionless current sheets. It appears that the amplitude of the waves may critically control the moment of initiation of reconnection, it determines the mode of reconnection, whether it is essentially two-dimensional or three-dimensional as well as the reconnection rate. Mainly in the case of non-antiparallel reconnection a transition from regular, well structured, to patchy reconnection and percolation is possible. We derive the parameter-dependence of the behaviour of collisionless reconnection in the presence of waves.
DE: 3210 Modeling
DE: 7524 Magnetic fields
DE: 7835 Magnetic reconnection
SC: SPA - Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting