Magnetohydrodynamic structure of a plasmoid in fast reconnection in low-beta plasmas

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2011-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/1101.2255v3

Physics of Plasmas, 18, 022105 (2011)

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Space Physics

25 pages, 7 figures, 1 tables; published in Phys. Plasmas; the publisher's version includes multimedia files

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3554655

Plasmoid structures in fast reconnection in low-beta plasmas are investigated by two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. A high-resolution shock-capturing code enables us to explore a variety of shock structures: vertical slow shocks behind the plasmoid, another slow shocks in the outer-region, and the shock-reflection in the front side. The Kelvin-Helmholtz-like turbulence is also found inside the plasmoid. It is concluded that these shocks are rigorous features in reconnection in low-beta plasmas, where the reconnection jet speed or the upstream Alfven speed exceeds the sound speed.

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