Magnetic Field Dissipation in the Interstellar Medium

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Nov 1999

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American Physical Society, 41st Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, November 15-19, 1999 Seattle, WA, abstract #GM

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There is strong phenomenological evidence that magnetic reconnection occurs in the interstellar medium. In particular, if there is a galactic dynamo there must be magnetic reconnection. But the magnetic Reynolds number Rm is very large for most interstellar structures, typically 10^15 - 10^20, suggesting that the magnetic reconnection rate does not scale as a power of R_m. Furthermore, interstellar magnetic fields are near equipartition with the turbulent velocities, suggesting that reconnection is dynamical as opposed to kinematic. I will discuss physical effects beyond MHD that could enhance the interstellar reconnection rate: ion-neutral drift, collisionless effects, and charged dust.

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