Electron Mixing and Isotropization in the Exhaust of Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection With a Guide FieldShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: Geophysical Research Letters, ISSN 0094-8276, E-ISSN 1944-8007, Vol. 47, no 14, article id e2020GL087159Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We investigate an exhaust crossing of asymmetric guide field reconnection observed by Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission at Earth's dayside magnetopause. One MMS spacecraft (MMS 4) observes multicomponent electron distributions, including two counterstreaming electron beams, while the other three MMS spacecraft, with a separation of similar to 30 km, record nearly isotropic electron distributions. As counterstreaming electrons are unstable for the electron two-stream instability, our observations suggest that the electrostatic waves generated by the fast-growing electron two-stream instability can contribute to the rapid isotropization of electron distributions in the reconnection exhaust, indicating that wave-particle interactions play an important role in electron dynamics.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Geophysical Union (AGU) , 2020. Vol. 47, no 14, article id e2020GL087159
National Category
Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279409DOI: 10.1029/2020GL087159ISI: 000556707300010Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85088561249OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-279409DiVA, id: diva2:1459765
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QC 20200820
2020-08-202020-08-202022-06-26Bibliographically approved