Two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic reconnection and kinetic physics in the Earth’s quasi-parallel bow shock

Bessho, Naoki

Two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic reconnection and kinetic physics in the Earth’s quasi-parallel bow shock

Naoki Bessho^1,2, Li-Jen Chen¹, Shan Wang^1,2, Michael Hesse³ and Lynn B Wilson III⁴, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, Code 672, Greenbelt, MD, United States