Relating the Phases of Magnetic Reconnection Growth to the Temporal Evolution of X-line Structures in a Collisionless Plasma

Payne, Dominic

Relating the Phases of Magnetic Reconnection Growth to the Temporal Evolution of X-line Structures in a Collisionless Plasma

Dominic Payne¹, Roy B Torbert², Kai Germaschewski², Jason R Shuster^3,4 and Terry G Forbes², (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States