Electron acceleration during magnetic islands coalescence and division process in a guide field reconnection  

作　　者：Shengxing Han Huanyu Wang Xinliang Gao 韩圣星;王焕宇;高新亮(CAS Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment,School of Earth and Space Sciences,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China;CAS Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology,Hefei 230026,China)

机构地区：[1]CAS Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment,School of Earth and Space Sciences,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China [2]CAS Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology,Hefei 230026,China

出　　处：《Chinese Physics B》2022年第2期465-470,共6页中国物理B（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41804159 and 41774169);the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.QYZDJ-SSW-DQC010)。

摘　　要：The magnetic merging process related to pairwise magnetic islands coalescence is investigated by two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations with a guide field.Owing to the force of attraction between parallel currents within the initial magnetic islands,the magnetic islands begin to approach each other and merge into one big island.We find that this newly formed island is unstable and can be divided into two small magnetic islands spontaneously.Lastly,these two small islands merge again.We follow the time evolution of this process,in which the contributions of three mechanisms of electron acceleration at different stages,including the Fermi,parallel electric field,and betatron mechanisms,are studied with the guide center theory.

关 键 词：magnetic reconnection magnetic islands electron acceleration particle-in-cell simulation 

分 类 号：O441.2[理学—电磁学]