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A Trigger Mechanism of Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration during Thinning of the Current Sheet

  • Authors: S. Saito and J. I. Sakai

Saito & Sakai 2006 The Astrophysical Journal 652 793.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 4.

Time development of the magnetic field ﹩B_{x}/ B_{0}﹩ and the phase space ﹩y/ L_{0}- v_{i,z}/ v_{\mathrm{th}\,,i}﹩ plots for some ions at ﹩\omega _{pe}t=0﹩, 300, and 600. In (a.1)–(a.3), the magnetic field ﹩B_{x}/ B_{0}﹩ is plotted on the ﹩x=5L_{0}﹩ line between ﹩y/ L_{0}=0﹩ and ﹩y/ L_{0}=5﹩. Some ions whose velocities are larger than ﹩3v_{\mathrm{th}\,,i}﹩ are randomly picked up from the region between ﹩y/ L_{0}=0﹩ and ﹩y/ L_{0}=5﹩ in (b.1)–(b.3).

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