[PDF] Top 20 Forced current sheet structure, formation and evolution: application to magnetic reconnection in the magnetosphere

... kinetic structure, a Forced Kinetic Current Sheet (FKCS), with extremely anisotropic ion distributions, is shown to appear as a result of a fast nonlinear process of transition from a ... See full document

... The evolution of electron current sheet and formation of secondary islands 4 Discussion and conclusions The evolution of the electron current sheet is considered to play a ... See full document

... the formation of a CME and a flare at almost the same time (Zhang et ...). Magnetic reconnection acts as strong coupling between the CME and the flare as indicated by the simultaneity between the ... See full document

... 3.1 Current sheet formation and thinning We first summarize the salient features of the evolution of the current distribution in a current sheet in response to the ... See full document

... the magnetic reconnection is seen to be biased towards the MSP ...out-of-plane magnetic field (the Hall magnetic field) has bipolar rather than quadrupolar structure, the latter of ... See full document

... current sheet. In the presence of such a northward field, if the reconnection starts somewhere in the current sheet, a plasmoid structure with closed or spiral field lines may be ... See full document

... Magnetic reconnection [1, 2] is an important elemen- tary process in a broad range of magnetized plasmas, such as solar atmosphere, magnetosphere, astrophysical objects and fusion ...plasmas. ... See full document

... general magnetic reconnection within the framework of MHD just assumes an intrinsic 3D magnetic field in the reconnection region, our kinetic simulations of thin current sheets iden- ... See full document

... of forced magnetic reconnection due to an externally applied boundary perturbation is improved by introducing correct asymptotic matching which takes into account the effect of inertia in the inner ... See full document

... the structure of an electron scale current sheet during early phase of collisionless magnetic ...The current sheet develops structures, ...the current sheet in the ... See full document

... the magnetosphere side of the EDR (Shay et ...the magnetic fields are not reversed in the thin current sheet, and the accelerated electrons make cyclotron motions rather the meandering ...the ... See full document

... Introduction Magnetic reconnection in high-conductivity magnetized plasma pertains to the most important fundamental problems of modern plasma ...time reconnection is a basis for various phenomena of ... See full document

... of magnetic reconnection The pressure in the center of the plasma sheet, and hence its gradient along x, are determined largely by the balance with the lobe magnetic pressure, which increases ... See full document

... turbulence, magnetic field lines lose their dynamical identity and particles entrained on field lines diffuse through space at a rate determined by the amplitude of the ...to reconnection speeds which are ... See full document

... 3D magnetic reconnection may be responsible for the formation of jets with the characteristics of Type II ...initial magnetic con fi guration is a 3D potential magnetic fi eld, ... See full document

... Keywords: Magnetic reconnection, Coronal mass ejection, Current sheet and Magnetic ...of magnetic energy stored previously in a compact region of upper chromospheres or lower ... See full document

... Time evolution of effective current sheet resistivities η X as a function of δ normalized by ρ i when four different acceleration-coil currents I acc (a) and six different B X fields (b) are applied ... See full document

... the magnetic guide field B y0 and are forced to gyrate in the ...of reconnection, the gyrating electrons move on rings around the O-points at x = ± L/4 (see ...pendicular magnetic field which ... See full document

... 4.4 Notes on future works A nicely developed magnetic island has the horizon- tal/vertical aspect ratio of ∼2. Then when an island having the wavelength of ∼12D is nicely developed, since the ver- tical ... See full document

... of magnetic reconnection in a scenario with magnetic ...The magnetic fi eld con fi gurations we analyze correspond to two neighboring loops with opposite ...The formation of a high- speed ... See full document