Low Frequency Waves in the Reconnection Layer

Details Low Frequency Waves in the Reconnection Layer Low Frequency Waves in the Reconnection Layer

Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmsm51c1825l&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SM51C-1825

Physics

Plasma Physics

[7811] Space Plasma Physics / Discontinuities, [7835] Space Plasma Physics / Magnetic Reconnection, [7836] Space Plasma Physics / Mhd Waves And Instabilities

Scientific paper

Low frequency waves in magnetic reconnection layer are studied using a three- dimensional (3-D) hybrid simulation code for a current sheet in slab geometry under an anti-parallel field component Bx and various guide filed By. Cases with localized resistivity and current dependent resistivity are studied. Alfven waves and magnetosonic waves are present, similar to previous two-dimensional simulations. Due to 3-D effects, kink modes, which mainly propagate along the direction of current, are introduced into the system. Such modes will alter the symmetry of slow shock, Alfven waves and thus the reconnection layer structure. For the component merging case with By/=0, the waves structures are seen to couple the third dimension effect make the propagation of Alfven waves and magnetosonic waves no longer constrained in the xz plane as in the 2D cases. The propagation of large amplitude waves in the current drift direction leads time-dependent rotational discontinuity and structure of the reconnection layer. Results corresponding to various length of the X-lines and single or multiple X-lines are studied as well.

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