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Electron and Proton Heating in Transrelativistic Magnetic Reconnection

  • Authors: Michael E. Rowan, Lorenzo Sironi, and Ramesh Narayan

2017 The Astrophysical Journal 850 29.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Comparison between simulations with ﹩c/{\omega }_{\mathrm{pe}}=4﹩ cells ﹩\to {\rm{\Delta }}t\approx 0.1\,{\omega }_{\mathrm{pe}}^{-1}﹩ (green circles) and ﹩c/{\omega }_{\mathrm{pe}}=8﹩ cells ﹩\to {\rm{\Delta }}t\approx 0.05\,{\omega }_{\mathrm{pe}}^{-1}﹩ (blue triangles) of the following heating fractions: (a): electron total, ﹩{M}_{T{\rm{e}},\mathrm{tot}};﹩ (b) electron adiabatic, ﹩{M}_{T{\rm{e}},\mathrm{ad}};﹩ (c) electron irreversible, ﹩{M}_{T{\rm{e}},\mathrm{irr}};﹩ (d) proton total, ﹩{M}_{T{\rm{i}},\mathrm{tot}};﹩ (e) proton adiabatic, ﹩{M}_{T{\rm{i}},\mathrm{ad}};﹩ (f) proton irreversible, ﹩{M}_{T{\rm{i}},\mathrm{irr}}﹩. We present a low-﹩{\beta }_{{\rm{i}}}﹩ case with ﹩{\beta }_{{\rm{i}}}=0.0078,{T}_{{\rm{e}}}/{T}_{{\rm{i}}}=1﹩, and a high-﹩{\beta }_{{\rm{i}}}﹩ case with ﹩{\beta }_{{\rm{i}}}=2,{T}_{{\rm{e}}}/{T}_{{\rm{i}}}=1;﹩ in both cases, we employ the realistic mass ratio ﹩{m}_{{\rm{i}}}/{m}_{{\rm{e}}}=1836﹩ and ﹩{\sigma }_{w}=0.1﹩.

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