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Published on: January 25, 2012
Ion and electron heating characteristics of magnetic reconnection in a two flux loop merging experiment
1Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. ono@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Abstract:
Characteristics of the high-power reconnection heating were measured for the first time directly by two-dimensional measurements of ion and electron temperatures. While electrons are heated mainly inside the current sheet by the Ohmic heating power, ions are heated mainly by fast shock or viscosity damping of the reconnection outflow in the two downstream areas. The magnetic reconnection converts the energy of reconnecting magnetic field B(p) mostly to the ion thermal energy, indicating that the reconnection heating energy is proportional to B(p)(2).
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