Fast magnetic reconnection via jets and current micro-sheets

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Oct 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003aps..dppgp1115w&link_type=abstract

American Physical Society, 45th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, October 27-31, 2003, Albuquerque, New Mexico,

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Numerical simulations of highly nonlinear magnetic reconnection provide evidence of ultra-thin current micro-sheets. These small-scale sheets are formed by strong exhaust jets from a primary, large-scale, current layer. The overall size of the secondary micro-sheet is determined by the thickness of the primary sheet. Numerical scalings show that the thickness of the micro-sheet varies linearly with the plasma resistivity. This scaling suggests that micro-sheets may provide fast reconnection sites in magnetically complex plasmas such as the solar corona and planetary magnetospheres.

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