Citation: | Xiao, H., Zhong, Z. H., Zhou, M., Yi, Y. Y., Song, L. J., Pang, Y., and Deng, X. H. (2023). The effect of the guide field on energy conversion during collisionless magnetic reconnection. Earth Planet. Phys., 7(4), 436–444. doi: 10.26464/epp2023043 |
Magnetic reconnection is well known as an efficient mechanism for transferring magnetic energy into plasma energy. However, how the energy conversion and partition between different species is influenced by the shear angle of the reconnecting magnetic component (i.e., the guide field strength) is not well understood. Using 2.5-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we investigated the energy conversion in reconnection with different guide fields. We found that the overall energy conversion first decreases steeply and then increases slowly when the guide field increases from