Kinematics of relativistic magnetic reconnection

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Jan 1994

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Physical Review Letters, Volume 72, Issue 4, January 24, 1994, pp.494-497

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Plasma Dynamics And Flow, Magnetohydrodynamics And Plasmas

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We study the relativistic generalizations of two-dimensional Sweet-Parker and Petschek reconnection models in the context of a relativistic pair plasma. The solutions show that if the outflow velocity from the resistive region approaches the relativistic Alfvén speed, the outflow density increase from Lorentz contraction allows a much faster inflow and thus a faster rate of magnetic energy dissipation than in the nonrelativistic regime. We briefly suggest applications of this result.

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