Lower-Hybrid Drift Waves Driving Electron Nongyrotropic Heating and Vortical Flows in a Magnetic Reconnection LayerUniv Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway..
Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20747 USA..
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Code 916, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA..
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Code 916, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.;Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20747 USA..
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Code 916, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.;Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20747 USA..
Swedish Inst Space Phys, SE-75121 Uppsala, Sweden..
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Code 916, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA..
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Code 916, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA..
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Code 916, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA..
Univ Toulouse UPS, CNRS, CNES, Inst Rech Astrophys & Planetol, F-31027 Toulouse 4, France..
Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA..
Austrian Acad Sci, Space Res Inst, A-8042 Graz, Austria..
Swedish Inst Space Phys, SE-75121 Uppsala, Sweden..
Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80305 USA..
Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA..
Southwest Res Inst, San Antonio, TX 78238 USA..
Denali Sci, Healy, AK 99743 USA..
Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA..
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Code 916, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.;Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20747 USA..
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2020 (English)In: Physical Review Letters, ISSN 0031-9007, E-ISSN 1079-7114, Vol. 125, no 2, article id 025103Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We report measurements of lower-hybrid drift waves driving electron heating and vortical flows in an electron-scale reconnection layer under a guide field. Electrons accelerated by the electrostatic potential of the waves exhibit perpendicular and nongyrotropic heating. The vortical flows generate magnetic field perturbations comparable to the guide field magnitude. The measurements reveal a new regime of electron-wave interaction and how this interaction modifies the electron dynamics in the reconnection layer.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Physical Society (APS) , 2020. Vol. 125, no 2, article id 025103
National Category
Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-278806DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.025103ISI: 000546518700003PubMedID: 32701350Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85088098647OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-278806DiVA, id: diva2:1455712
Note
QC 20200728
2020-07-282020-07-282022-06-26Bibliographically approved