The scaling of collisionless, magnetic reconnection for large systems

Details The scaling of collisionless, magnetic reconnection for large systems The scaling of collisionless, magnetic reconnection for large systems

Jul 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999georl..26.2163s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 26, Issue 14, p. 2163-2166

Physics

Plasma Physics

143

Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection, Space Plasma Physics: Numerical Simulation Studies, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers

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Hybrid simulations with electron inertia, along with analytic scaling arguments, are presented which demonstrate that magnetic reconnection remains Alfvénic in a collisionless system even as the macroscopic scale length of the system becomes very large. This fast reconnection is facilitated by the whistler physics present near the x-line. The reconnection rate is found to be a universal constant corresponding to an inflow velocity towards the x-line of around 0.1cA.

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