Asymmetric coupled interchange-ballooning dynamics during magnetic reconnection in the solar wind driven magnetosphere

ORAL

Abstract

Fast reconnection in the magnetosphere and the geomagnetic tail involves electron scale dynamics that includes the electron inertial scale length on the inner scale and the ion gyroradius on the outer scale. New forms of the partial differential equations for the electric and magnetic field during the fast interchange dynamics. Typical data is that of the fast reconnection with dominant electron heating reported in the Nakamura et al. from CLUSTER data. New formulas extend to smaller scales the previous simulations of Horton et al. [2007] for this event by including more electron dynamics and heating. 3D-simulations and movies of the dynamics are presented.

Authors

  • Ehab Hassan

    University of Texas at Austin

  • W. Horton

    University of Texas, University of Texas at Austin

  • D.R. Hatch

    University of Texas at Austin

  • O. Agullo

    Aix-Marseille University, PIIM, Marseille, France

  • M. Muraglia

    Aix-Marseille University, PIIM, Marseille, France

  • S. Benkadda

    Aix-Marseille University, PIIM, Marseille, France