Comparison of Secondary Islands in Collisional Reconnection to Hall Reconnection

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Dec 2010

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SM51C-1832

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

[7526] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / Magnetic Reconnection

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Secondary islands (plasmoids) self-consistently occur during collisional (Sweet-Parker) reconnection at high Lundquist numbers, as in the solar corona, causing unsteady reconnection. Previous numerical studies of the effect of secondary islands on the transition to collisionless (Hall) reconnection considered systems with no separation of scales between the collisional and collisionless states. In this study [1], the first resistive Hall-magnetohydrodynamic (Hall-MHD) simulations to separate the two scales are presented. Three main results are found. There exists a regime in which secondary islands occur during resistive reconnection without collisionless effects entering, with a reconnection rate faster than Sweet-Parker but slower than Hall reconnection. The reconnection rate increases substantially when Hall reconnection begins, showing that secondary islands are not the cause of the fastest reconnection rates. The onset of Hall reconnection leads to the ejection of the secondary islands in the vicinity of the X-line, implying that energy is released more rapidly during Hall reconnection. Applications to the corona are discussed. [1] Shepherd and Cassak, Phys. Rev. Lett., 105, 015004 (2010).

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