The effect of a guide field on local energy conversion during asymmetric magnetic reconnection: Particle-in-cell simulations

Paul Cassak1, Kevin Genestreti2, James L Burch3, Michael Shay4, Marc Swisdak5, James Frederick Drake5,6, Lora Price7, Stefan Eriksson8, Brian J Anderson9, Viacheslav G Merkin9, Colin M Komar10, Tai Phan11 and James Webster12, (1)West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (4)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (5)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (6)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (7)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (8)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (9)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (10)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (11)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (12)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States