[PDF] Top 20 Electrodynamics in a very thin current sheet leading to magnetic reconnection

... such current sheets has been extensively stud- ied ...have current profiles significantly differ- ent from that in a Harris current sheet (CS) (Harris, ...Bifurcated current sheets ... See full document

... the electrodynamics of a thin current sheet ...anti-parallel magnetic field, Harris equilibrium is achieved during the early stage of the ...causing current disruption in the ... See full document

... the current distribution, i.e. if the thin current sheet in the laminar case had been replaced by a similar, albeit distorted, feature embedded in the ...the magnetic shear seems to be ... See full document

... co-helicity reconnection. He showed that different from a B = 0 reconnection (null-helicity reconnection), the helicity becomes dissipated under the influence of a guide field and corresponding ... See full document

... the current sheet and propagate to the downstream region during fast ...fast reconnection because the fast reconnection oc- curs when the fluctuations are ...the reconnection region is ... See full document

... from reconnection sites or X lines are a key feature of the dynam- ics in the Earth’s ...interplanetary magnetic field and fast solar wind, to study fast plasma sheet ion flows and related mag- netic ... See full document

... the current sheet which involves the X point in it in the whole recon- nection ...the current sheet gradually increases its length in the case with large external driving force and starts to ... See full document

... the magnetic field component perpendicular to the magnetotail current sheet is related to the stability of the collisionless tearing mode in the quiet-time magnetotail ...a thin enough ... See full document

... kinetic reconnection, with the help of numerical sim- ulations, using a Vlasov code in 2D and PIC simulations in ...type current sheet, with a sheet width comparable to the ion ...the ... See full document

... So magnetic reconnection may be driven by a build-up of current due to an ideal MHD ...maximum current reaches a finite value, then the Lundquist number must be smaller than a particular, ... See full document

... the current sheet below the flux rope, that assist the upwards accel- eration of the ...the reconnection at the current sheet below the flux rope produces lines that add sig- nificant ... See full document

... ure 3 compares the FAC pattern on the x = 20D cross-tail section at T = 70D. The panel at the top is the same as shown in Fig. 2(a). As D is increased, one can see that another patch of upward FAC (blue) start to appear ... See full document

... mass-shell, it gives the index of refraction of the strong-field region, which is then evaluated numerically and plotted. This makes it possible for photon-splittin[r] ... See full document

... through a local or a global bifurcation. we recall that a local bifurcation is characterised by a change in the number of null points, while a global bifurcation changes the connectivities, and hence the number of flux ... See full document

... the magnetic flux through a closed loop moving with the fluid is conserved, the implication being that flux tubes move with the fluid, their strength remaining ...a magnetic flux tube becomes a ... See full document

... Magnetic reconnection is a phenomenon of fundamental importance in astrophysical and laboratory ...A magnetic field occupying the same spatial region as a perfectly conducting plasma or fluid is tied ... See full document

... f reconnection, since the result m ay be strongly influenced by an imposed down­ stream boundary condition, such as the specification o f the norm al velocity at the outflow ...erical reconnection experim ... See full document

... resistivity, magnetic recon- nection occurs in the neighborhood of the ...the current sheet ( | x | < 0 ...the current sheet, x is increased with distance from the sheet until ... See full document

... the reconnection is strongest are associated with O-type perpendicular magnetic field lines local to the separator and that regions where the reconnection is weaker, in phase I, and throughout all of ... See full document

... weaker reconnection events evidently follow a different ...of magnetic fields that is ...the reconnection rates of the incoherent randomized magnetic field are on average much weaker than for ... See full document