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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 523, Issue 1, Pages 928-933Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1453
Keywords
magnetic reconnection; plasmas; dust; extinction
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This article reports the first fully kinetic simulations of collisionless reconnection in a three-species dusty plasma with negatively charged dust grains, discovering the double Hall pattern and analyzing the reconnection rate. This study is significant for explaining observations of planetary magnetospheres and astrophysical objects, as well as for laboratory studies of dusty plasmas.
Magnetic reconnection is prevalent in magnetized plasmas in space and laboratories. Despite significant investigations on reconnection in electron-ion plasmas, studies of reconnection in magnetized plasmas with negatively charged dust grains are quite sparse. Here, we report the first fully kinetic simulations of collisionless reconnection in a three-species (i.e. electron, proton, and negatively charged dust grain) dusty plasma, through which the discovery of double Hall pattern is made. The double Hall pattern consists of a traditional Hall quadruple current in between the ion and electron diffusion region and a reversed Hall current in between the boundary of the ion and dust diffusion region. The analysis of the reconnection rate is also given. This study may be applicable to explain observations of planetary magnetospheres and the astrophysical objects, and may be realized in the laboratory studies of dusty plasmas.
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