Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-08-03
Phys.Plasmas 12:102902,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 4 figures, minor changes as compared to the 1st version
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2084847
In this paper quasi-stationary, two-and-a-half-dimensional magnetic reconnection is studied in the framework of incompressible resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). A new theoretical approach for calculation of the reconnection rate is presented. This approach is based on local analytical derivations in a thin reconnection layer, and it is applicable to the case when resistivity is anomalous and is an arbitrary function of the electric current and the spatial coordinates. It is found that a quasi-stationary reconnection rate is fully determined by a particular functional form of the anomalous resistivity and by the local configuration of the magnetic field just outside the reconnection layer. It is also found that in the special case of constant resistivity reconnection is Sweet-Parker and not Petschek.
Kulsrud Russell M.
Linde Timur
Malyshkin Leonid M.
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