Electron acceleration from contracting magnetic islands during reconnection

By J. Drake, M. Swisdak, H. Che, M. Shay. Nature, 2006

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The physics of gamma-ray bursts & relativistic jets (2014, background): “hino, 2001; Jaroschek et al., 2004; Sironi and Spitkovsky, 2012), and some acceleration occurs due to rst-order Fermi process as particles are re ected back and forth between converging islands (e.g. Drake et al., 2006; Sironi and Spitkovsky, 2012). However, little acceleration takes place while par”
THE INTERNAL-COLLISION-INDUCED MAGNETIC RECONNECTION AND TURBULENCE (ICMART) MODEL OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS (2010, background): “To compare 13 We note that the study of reconnection is an rapidly evolving field (Drake et al. 2006; Loureiro et al. 2007, 2009; Zenitani et al. 2009, 2010).”
Ion heating resulting from pickup in magnetic reconnection exhausts (2009, background): “…energetic particle spectra inferred from solar observations were also a consequence of the different values of b in the corona versus the magnetosphere: particle acceleration in a finite b plasma is constrained as energetic particles approach the marginal fire hose condition [Drake et al., 2006].”
Plasmoids in relativistic reconnection, from birth to adulthood: first they grow, then they go (2016, background): “The convergence of the velocity flow in between merging plasmoids is believed to play an important role for particle acceleration (SS14,Drake et al. 2006; Guo et al. 2014, 2015; Nalewajko et al. 2015).”
Reconnection-driven plasmoids in blazars: fast flares on a slow envelope (2012, background): “Additional acceleration of particles takes place during the merging process of the plasmoids (Zenitani & Hoshino 2001; 2005; Drake et al. 2006, Sironi & Spitkovsky 2011; although the energy spectrum of the particles depends on the details and is still topic of investigation).”
ACCELERATION OF PARTICLES AT THE TERMINATION SHOCK OF A RELATIVISTIC STRIPED WIND (2011, background): “Alternatively, particle energization may be due to a kind of first-order Fermi process within magnetic islands, when particles reflect from the ends of contracting islands following coalescence (Drake et al. 2006).”
Modelling Quasi-Periodic Pulsations in Solar and Stellar Flares (2018, background): “…the idea to plasmoid-dominated reconnection in a simulated eruptive flare using a 2.5D MHD simulation, and found that energy gain of electrons in plasmoids can be higher than the previous estimation by Drake et al. (2006) due to strong plasma compression that occurs at the flare current sheet.”
Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (ISIS): Design of the Energetic Particle Investigation (2016, background): “Acceleration via reconnection can be complex, involving direct acceleration, trapping particles in collapsing magnetic islands (Drake et al. 2006), stochastic acceleration (Le Roux et al.”
RELATIVISTIC RECONNECTION: AN EFFICIENT SOURCE OF NON-THERMAL PARTICLES (2014, background): “1a, the particles experience a variety of other acceleration processes (Drake et al. 2006; Oka et al. 2010), yet the power-law index does not appreciably change.”
Particle Acceleration in the Magnetotail and Aurora (2012, background): “During this contracting motion of islands, the particles gain energy by reflecting from the ends of the contracting magnetic islands (Drake et al. 2006).”
GIANT GAMMA-RAY BUBBLES FROM FERMI-LAT: ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS ACTIVITY OR BIPOLAR GALACTIC WIND? (2010, background): “Significant magnetic reversals within the bubble shell are naturally expected, just like the heliosheath region of the solar system (Drake et al. 2006; Innes et al. 1997): the crossing of the termination shock by Voyager 1 and 2 may indicate the acceleration within regions of fast magnetic…”
Acceleration of primary and secondary particles in galaxy clusters by compressible MHD turbulence: from radio haloes to gamma-rays (2010, methodology): “Two dimensional numerical simulations of acceleration can be found in Drake et al. (2006, 2010) and first three dimensional simulations were presented in Lazarian et al. (2010).”
NUMERICAL TESTS OF FAST RECONNECTION IN WEAKLY STOCHASTIC MAGNETIC FIELDS (2009, background): “Straus’ idea is closely related to recent attempts to explain the existence of the observed thick reconnection region in the context of numerical models of collisionless reconnection (Ciaravella & Raymond 2008) and predictions of particle acceleration within these regions (Drake et al. 2006a).”
ELECTRON ACCELERATION BY MULTI-ISLAND COALESCENCE (2010, methodology): “Note that a multi-island coalescence may appear in association of developed turbulence that creates volume-filling magnetic island (Tajima & Shibata 1997; Drake et al. 2006; Retinò et al. 2007; Bemporad 2008).”