| PHYSICS OF GASES, PLASMAS, AND ELECTRIC DISCHARGES |
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Electron Whistler Mode Waves Associated with Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection |
| GUO Jun1,2**, YU Bin1, GUO Guang-Hai1, ZHAO Bo3
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1College of Mathematics and Physics, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042
2State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
3College of Automation and Electronic Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042
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GUO Jun, YU Bin, GUO Guang-Hai et al 2011 Chin. Phys. Lett. 28 025201 |
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Abstract The results of particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are presented on the evolution of the electron whistler waves during the collisionless magnetic reconnection. The simulation results show that the electron whistler waves with frequency higher than the lower hybrid frequency are found to occur in the electrons outflow region. Moreover, the present results indicate that these electron whistler waves with high-frequency in the region greater than an ion inertial scale of the x-line are irrelevant to the fast reconnection, but are generated as a result of the reconnection processes.
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| Keywords:
52.35.Vd
52.65.Rr
52.35.Hr
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Received: 05 November 2010
Published: 30 January 2011
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| PACS: |
52.35.Vd
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(Magnetic reconnection)
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52.65.Rr
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(Particle-in-cell method)
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52.35.Hr
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(Electromagnetic waves (e.g., electron-cyclotron, Whistler, Bernstein, upper hybrid, lower hybrid))
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