Transition to whistler mediated magnetic reconnection

Details Transition to whistler mediated magnetic reconnection Transition to whistler mediated magnetic reconnection

Jan 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21...73m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 1, p. 73-76

Physics

Plasma Physics

148

Demagnetization, Earth Magnetosphere, Electrons, Ions, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetic Fields, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Magnetohydrodynamics, Whistlers, Magnetic Flux, Plasma Physics, Simulation, Solar Wind

Scientific paper

The transition in the magnetic reconnection rate from the resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) regime where the Alfen wave controls reconnection to a regime in which the ions become unmagnetized and the whistler wave mediates reconnection is explored with 2-D hybrid simulations. In the whistler regime the electrons carry the currents while the ions provide a neutralizing background. A simple physical picture is presented illustrating the role of the whistler mediated reconnection is calculated analytically. The development of an out-of-plane component of the magnetic field is an observable signature of whistler driven reconnection.

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