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Magnetic reconnection in non-neutral plasmas

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K18748
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Medium-sized Section 14:Plasma science and related fields
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

Hoshino Masahiro  東京大学, 大学院理学系研究科(理学部), 教授 (90241257)

Project Period (FY) 2018-06-29 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥6,370,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,470,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Keywords磁気リコネクション / 相対論プラズマ / 非中性プラズマ / パルサー磁気圏 / プラズマ加熱 / 粒子加速 / プラズマ不安定 / ドリフトキンク不安定
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Recently, relativistic magnetic reconnection has received great attention in relation to astrophysical objects (e.g., pulsar magnetosphere and magnetar), and non-neutral plasma with different plasma density between electron and position is believed to be occupied. We investigated three cases: (1) an equilibrium state with the electrostatic field in the non-neutral plasma is balanced by an artificial gravity, (2) a non-neutral equilibrium state obtained by the Lorentz transformation from the standard Harris solution, and (3) the Harris solution with a relativistic drift current. Specifically, about the third project, we found that, contrary to the conventional understanding of the fast energy dissipation by the relativistic reconnection, the growth of magnetic reconnection is suppressed, and is inversely proportional to the Lorentz factor of the drift speed.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

高温希薄プラズマ中では、磁場のエネルギーを熱エネルギーに変換する素過程として、磁力線の繋ぎ変えによって起きる磁気リコネクションと呼ばれるものがあり、実験室プラズマから宇宙プラズマまで数多くの研究が行われてきている。本研究は、極限宇宙で重要となる磁場を作る電流の速度が相対論的な速度を持つ場合の磁気リコネクションについて、理論およびスーパーコンピュータを用いた数値シミュレーションを行い、電流速度が光速に近づくとリコネクションのエネルギー変換効率が著しく低下することを明らかにした。これはパルサー天体を始めとする高エネルギー天体のプラズマ環境を理解するうえで重要な素過程である。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2020 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (17 results)

All 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (11 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 9 results,  Peer Reviewed: 11 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Invited: 6 results)

  • [Journal Article] Stabilization of Magnetic Reconnection in the Relativistic Current Sheet2020

    • Author(s)
      Hoshino Masahiro
    • Journal Title

      The Astrophysical Journal

      Volume: 900 Issue: 1 Pages: 66-66

    • DOI

      10.3847/1538-4357/aba59d

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Observational Evidence for Stochastic Shock Drift Acceleration of Electrons at the Earth’s Bow Shock2020

    • Author(s)
      Amano T.、Katou T.、Kitamura N.、Oka M.、Matsumoto Y.、Hoshino M.、Saito Y.、Yokota S.、Giles B. L.、Paterson W.?R.、Russell C. T.、Le Contel O.、Ergun R. E.、Lindqvist P.-A.、Turner D. L.、Fennell J. F.、Blake J. B.
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review Letters

      Volume: 124 Issue: 6 Pages: 065101-065101

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevlett.124.065101

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Kinetic Simulations of Nonrelativistic Perpendicular Shocks of Young Supernova Remnants. III. Magnetic Reconnection2020

    • Author(s)
      Bohdan Artem、Pohl Martin、Niemiec Jacek、Vafin Sergei、Matsumoto Yosuke、Amano Takanobu、Hoshino Masahiro
    • Journal Title

      The Astrophysical Journal

      Volume: 893 Issue: 1 Pages: 6-6

    • DOI

      10.3847/1538-4357/ab7cd6

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Transport Ratios of the Kinetic Alfv?n Mode in Space Plasmas2020

    • Author(s)
      Narita Yasuhito、Roberts Owen Wyn、V?r?s Zolt?n、Hoshino Masahiro
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Physics

      Volume: 8

    • DOI

      10.3389/fphy.2020.00166

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Nonthermal electron and ion acceleration by magnetic reconnection in large laser-driven plasmas2020

    • Author(s)
      Totorica S. R.、Hoshino M.、Abel T.、Fiuza F.
    • Journal Title

      Physics of Plasmas

      Volume: 27 Issue: 11 Pages: 112111-112111

    • DOI

      10.1063/5.0021169

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] PIC simulation methods for cosmic radiation and plasma instabilities2019

    • Author(s)
      Martin Pohl, Masahiro Hoshino, Jacek Niemiec
    • Journal Title

      Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics

      Volume: - Pages: 103751-103751

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.ppnp.2019.103751

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Electron Scattering by Low-Frequency Whistler Waves at Earth's Bow Shock2019

    • Author(s)
      M. Oka, F. Otsuka, S. Matsukiyo, L. B. Wilson III, M. R. Argall, T. Amano, T. D. Phan, M. Hoshino, O. Le Contel, D. J. Gershman, J. L. Burch, R. B. Torbert, J. C. Dorelli, B. L. Giles, R. E. Ergun, C. T. Russell, and P. A. Lindqvist
    • Journal Title

      Astrophysical Journal

      Volume: 886 Issue: 1 Pages: 53-53

    • DOI

      10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a81

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Anomalous plasma acceleration in colliding high-power laser-produced plasmas2019

    • Author(s)
      T. Morita, K. Nagashima, M. Edamoto, K. Tomita, T. Sano, Y. Itadani, R. Kumar, M. Ota, S. Egashira, R. Yamazaki, S. J. Tanaka, S. Tomita, S. Tomiya, H. Toda, I. Miyata, S. Kakuchi, S. Sei, N. Ishizaka, S. Matsukiyo, Y. Kuramitsu, Y. Ohira, M. Hoshino, and Y. Sakawa
    • Journal Title

      Physics of Plasmas

      Volume: 26 Issue: 9 Pages: 090702-090702

    • DOI

      10.1063/1.5100197

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Kinetic simulations of nonrelativistic perpendicular shocks of young supernova remnants. II. Influence of shock-surfing acceleration on downstream electron spectra2019

    • Author(s)
      Artem Bohdan, Jacek Niemiec, Martin Pohl, Yosuke Matsumoto, Takanobu Amano, and Masahiro Hoshino
    • Journal Title

      Astrophysical Journal

      Volume: 885 Issue: 1 Pages: 10-10

    • DOI

      10.3847/1538-4357/ab43cf

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Energy Partition between Ion and Electron of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection2018

    • Author(s)
      Hoshino Masahiro
    • Journal Title

      The Astrophysical Journal

      Volume: 868 Issue: 2 Pages: L18-L18

    • DOI

      10.3847/2041-8213/aaef3a

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Magnetic reconnection driven by electron dynamics2018

    • Author(s)
      Kuramitsu Y.、Moritaka T.、Sakawa Y.、Morita T.、Sano T.、Koenig M.、Gregory C. D.、Woolsey N.、Tomita K.、Takabe H.、Liu Y. L.、Chen S. H.、Matsukiyo S.、Hoshino M.
    • Journal Title

      Nature Communications

      Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Pages: 5109-5109

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41467-018-07415-3

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Magnetic reconnection in relativistic astrophysical plasmas2020

    • Author(s)
      M. Hoshino
    • Organizer
      Max Planck Princeton Center Workshop
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Ion and electron heating and their energy partition during magnetic reconnection2019

    • Author(s)
      M. Hoshino
    • Organizer
      Asia-Pacific Physics Conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Ion and electron energy partition and T-V relation during magnetic reconnection2019

    • Author(s)
      M. Hoshino
    • Organizer
      Korean Astrophysics Workshop
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Ion and electron heating and their energy partition during magnetic reconnection2019

    • Author(s)
      M. Hoshino
    • Organizer
      Workshop on Magnetic Fields in Laboratory High Energy Density Plasmas
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Ion and electron heating during magnetic reconnection2019

    • Author(s)
      M. Hoshino
    • Organizer
      Max-Planck Princeton Center Workshop
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Particle acceleration in plasma universe2018

    • Author(s)
      M. Hoshino
    • Organizer
      Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics, AAPPS-DPP
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited

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Published: 2018-07-25   Modified: 2022-01-27  

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