Onset of fast magnetic reconnection

被引：33

作者：

Cassak, P. A. ^{[3
]}

Drake, J. F.

Shay, M. A.

Eckhardt, B.

机构：

[1] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[2] Univ Maryland, Inst Res Elect & Appl Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[3] Univ Delaware, Dept Phys & Astron, Sharp Lab 217, Newark, DE 19716 USA

[4] Univ Marburg, Fachbereich Phys, D-35032 Marburg, Germany

[5] Univ Maryland, Burgers Program, IREAP, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[6] Univ Maryland, IPST, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2007年 / 98卷 / 21期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.215001

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We demonstrate the existence of a new steady-state magnetic reconnection configuration which lies at the boundary of the basins of attraction between the Sweet-Parker and Hall reconnection configurations. The solution is linearly unstable to small perturbations and its identification required a novel iterative numerical technique. The eigenmodes of the unstable solution are localized near the X line, suggesting that the onset of fast reconnection in a weakly collisional plasma is initiated locally at the X line as opposed to remotely at the boundaries.

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