Chaotic motions of plasma and dust particles in magnetic reconnection regimes in Earth's magnetotail
- Author(s)
- Christoph Lhotka, Elke Pilat-Lohinger, Philippe Bourdin
- Abstract
We investigate the role of regular and chaotic motions of plasma and dust particles in the regime of magnetic reconnection of the Earth magnetotail on plasma processes. Our study is based on numerical simulations of particle orbits in plasma simulations. We analyze the variational system of equations together with the evolution and characteristics of the short time Local Lyapunov Indicators. We find regular and chaotic motions of (dust) particle orbits in phase space and link our results to open problems of plasma physics.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- Publication date
- 07-2018
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/821109e9-dd2d-4980-8aea-88a44b5221f5