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Table 1

Simulation setup.

Parameters Values Simulation units More physical units
n0 109 [m−3]
kBTe 0.01 [mec2] ~5.11 keV
vi 10−4 [c] ~30 km s−1
mi 10 000 [me] ~5.5 Da
ωpe,0 [s−1]
L0 c/ωpe,0 [m] ~168 m
Le,De,0 [m] ~16.8 m

Δx 0.9Le,De,0 [m] ~15.1 m
Δt 0.9Δx/c = 0.081 [s] ~45 ns
Ncell 215 = 32768 cells
Nppc 2048 particles per cell per species
NP 227 ≈ 1.34 × 108 simulation particles

Lbox Ncell Δx [m] ~495 km
Hn 0.25Lbox [m] ~124 km
ni(x, t = 0) exp(−x/Hn) [n0
B0 0.1 ~1014 nT
HB 400LDe,0 [m] ~6.7 km
Bz(x, t = 0) [B0]

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