Uploaded February 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Inside box: isosurface of current density colored by the particle density.
Side panels: color coded current density.
Guide field is present at 50% of inflow field intensity. The electron current sheet that is produced during the development of reconnection is breaking up into filaments in 3D, and this leads to the creation of "flux ropes" in which the magnetic field lines begin to wrap around the current filaments.
After Daughton et al., 2011 Nature Physics, TBD.
Inside box: isosurface of current density colored by the particle density.
Side panels: color coded current density.
Guide field is present at 50% of inflow field intensity. The electron current sheet that is produced during the development of reconnection is breaking up into filaments in 3D, and this leads to the creation of "flux ropes" in which the magnetic field lines begin to wrap around the current filaments.
After Daughton et al., 2011 Nature Physics, TBD.
