Articles | Volume 35, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-999-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-35-999-2017
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28 Aug 2017
Regular paper |  | 28 Aug 2017

Electron cyclotron maser instability (ECMI) in strong magnetic guide field reconnection

Rudolf A. Treumann and Wolfgang Baumjohann

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It is suggested that collisionless reconnection under conditions of very strong current-parallel guide fields in dilute plasmas should become a rather efficient source of electromagnetic radiation in the free space modes X and O and their harmonics. The mechanism is based on the electron cyclotron maser instability (ECMI), which can be excited by the anisotropic weakly relativistic electron distribution in the many inertial lengths long electron exhausts caused in reconnection.