Diagnosis of general magnetic reconnection

Details Diagnosis of general magnetic reconnection Diagnosis of general magnetic reconnection

Oct 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995jgr...10019819v&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 100, Issue A10, p. 19819-19828

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Plasma Physics

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Interplanetary Physics: Sources Of The Solar Wind, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Corona, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Magnetic Fields, Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection

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During the course of an investigation of solar coronal heating, we were motivated to consider magnetic reconnection of the atmospheric magnetic field as a possible resistive heating source in the topological-dissipation model proposed by Parker (1972). It was apparent that a quantitative diagnostic was needed which could establish the existence of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection and provide quantitative information on the extent of its dissipative effects. A new diagnostic of general magnetic reconnection (GMR), as described by Schindler et al. (1988), is derived and applied to numerical simulations of the tearing mode and Alfvén waves. MHD simulations of Parker's heating model are then described, and the existence of reconnection is shown through the use of the GMR diagnostic and other indicators of magnetic reconnection.

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