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Pitch-angle distribution of accelerated electrons in 3D current sheets with magnetic islands

Zharkova, V.; Xia, Q.

Aims: This research aims to explore variations of electron pitch-angle distributions (PADs) during spacecraft crossing of reconnecting current sheets (RCSs) with magnetic islands. Our results can benchmark the sampled characteristic features with realistic PADs derived from in situ observations.
Methods: Particle motion is simulated in 2…