Laboratory Modeling of Reconnection in the Magnetosphere

Details Laboratory Modeling of Reconnection in the Magnetosphere Laboratory Modeling of Reconnection in the Magnetosphere

Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufmsm53b0406m&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #SM53B-0406

Physics

7831 Laboratory Studies, 7835 Magnetic Reconnection, 2772 Plasma Waves And Instabilities, 0639 Nonlinear Electromagnetics, 0654 Plasmas

Scientific paper

The Space Plasma Simulation Chamber (SPSC) at the Naval Research Laboratory is being used for investigation of 3-dimensional magnetic reconnection with ratios of length scale to ion skin depth comparable to those observed in Earth's magnetotail. The SPSC uses a steady-state cylindrical plasma column with a background magnetic field of 200 Gauss. We initiate the reconnection events and plasma dynamics, by pulsing an axial magnetic field rising to about 400 Gauss in about 2 μ s. The experimental observations will be compared to theory and numerical simulations.

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