The Location of Magnetic Reconnection at Earth’s Magnetopause
Space Science Reviews, 2021 One of the major questions about magnetic reconnection is how specific solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field conditions influence where reconnection occurs at the Earth’s magnetopause.
K. Trattner, S. Petrinec, S. Fuselier
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Multi-fluid simulations of chromospheric magnetic reconnection in a weakly ionized reacting plasma [PDF]
, 2012 We present results from the first self-consistent multi-fluid simulations of chromospheric magnetic reconnection in a weakly ionized reacting plasma. We simulate two dimensional magnetic reconnection in a Harris current sheet with a numerical model which
Leake, James E. +3 more
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Recent progress on particle acceleration and reconnection physics during magnetic reconnection in the magnetically-dominated relativistic regime [PDF]
Physics of Plasmas, 2020 Magnetic reconnection in strongly magnetized astrophysical plasma environments is believed to be the primary process for fast energy release and particle energization.
F. Guo +5 more
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Asymmetric magnetic reconnection with a flow shear and applications to the magnetopause [PDF]
, 2015 We perform a theoretical and numerical study of anti-parallel 2D magnetic reconnection with asymmetries in the density and reconnecting magnetic field strength in addition to a bulk flow shear across the reconnection site in the plane of the reconnecting
Cassak, P. A. +5 more
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On the Cause of Supra-Arcade Downflows in Solar Flares [PDF]
, 2013 A model of supra-arcade downflows (SADs), dark low density regions also known as tadpoles that propagate sunward during solar flares, is presented. It is argued that the regions of low density are flow channels carved by sunward-directed outflow jets ...
Cassak, P. A. +5 more
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Magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasmas [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2020 Magnetic reconnection has been intensively studied in fully ionized plasmas. However, plasmas are often partially ionized in astrophysical environments.
Lei Ni +3 more
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Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection in Space Plasmas [PDF]
, 2013 Magnetic reconnection requires the violation of the frozen-in condition which ties gyrating charged particles to the magnetic field inhibiting diffusion. Ongoing reconnection has been identified in near-Earth space as being responsible for the excitation
Baumjohann, W., Treumann, R. A.
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Magnetic Reconnection in the Space Sciences: Past, Present, and Future
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2020 Magnetic reconnection converts, often explosively, stored magnetic energy to particle energy in space and in the laboratory. Through processes operating on length scales that are tiny, it facilitates energy conversion over dimensions of, in some cases ...
M. Hesse, P. Cassak
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Frontiers in Physics, 2021 The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) and its effects relating to the transfer of energy and mass from the solar wind into the magnetosphere remain an important focus of magnetospheric physics.
E. A. Kronberg +16 more
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The Interplay of Magnetically Dominated Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection in Producing Nonthermal Particles [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2019 Magnetized turbulence and magnetic reconnection are often invoked to explain the nonthermal emission observed from a wide variety of astrophysical sources.
L. Comisso, L. Sironi
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