Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005apj...633l..49c&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 633, Issue 1, pp. L49-L52.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Diffusion, Magnetic Fields, Turbulence
Scientific paper
Many processes in astrophysical plasmas are directly related to magnetic connection in the presence of turbulent fluctuations. Even statistically homogeneous turbulence can contain closed topological structures that inhibit otherwise random transport of field line trajectories, thus temporarily trapping certain trajectories. When a coherent random field perturbation is added, the trapped field lines can escape diffusively but at a suppressed rate that is much lower than what would be estimated based on the perturbation field alone. Here we demonstrate both trapping and escape, and show, using a novel quasi-linear theory, how to compute the suppressed diffusion that affects the escape from the trapping structure. The effect is relevant to understanding filamentary magnetic connection in interplanetary space and the observed dropouts in moderately energetic particles from impulsive solar flares. Expressed here in terms of a magnetic field line random walk, this phenomenon also has analogies in a broad range of dynamical systems that evolve as an incompressible flow in phase space with a coherent perturbation.
Chuychai Piyanate
Matthaeus William H.
Rowlands George
Ruffolo David
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