KINEMATICS OF RELATIVISTIC MAGNETIC RECONNECTION

被引：85

作者：

BLACKMAN, EG ^{[1
]}

FIELD, GB ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] HARVARD UNIV,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02138

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 1994年 / 72卷 / 04期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.494

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

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 Alfven 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.

引用

页码：494 / 497

页数：4

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