Electron heating during magnetic reconnection: A simulation scaling study

نویسندگان

  • M. A. Shay
  • C. C. Haggerty
  • T. D. Phan
  • J. F. Drake
  • P. A. Cassak
  • P. Wu
  • M. Oieroset
  • M. Swisdak
چکیده

M. A. Shay, C. C. Haggerty, T. D. Phan, J. F. Drake, P. A. Cassak, P. Wu, M. Oieroset, M. Swisdak, and K. Malakit Bartol Research Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom Department of Physics, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

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تاریخ انتشار 2014