期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 860, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aac1c1
关键词
magnetic reconnection; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); Sun: corona; Sun: magnetic fields; Sun: oscillations
资金
- NASA LWS Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellowship
- NASA [NNH16AC39I, MIAA1702-0002-00]
- National Science Foundation
- NASA Solar and Heliospheric Physics program
Magnetic reconnection in the solar corona is thought to be unstable with the formation of multiple interacting plasmoids, and previous studies have shown that plasmoid dynamics can trigger MHD waves of different modes propagating outward from the reconnection site. However, variations in plasma parameters and magnetic field strength in the vicinity of a coronal reconnection site may lead to wave reflection and mode conversion. In this paper we investigate the reflection and refraction of fast magnetoacoustic waves near a reconnection site. Under a justified assumption of an analytically specified Alfven speed profile, we derive and solve analytically the full wave equation governing the propagation of fast-mode waves in a non-uniform background plasma without recourse to the small wavelength approximation. We show that the waves undergo reflection near the reconnection current sheet due to the Alfven speed gradient and that the reflection efficiency depends on the plasma-beta parameter, as well as on the wave frequency. In particular, we find that waves are reflected more efficiently near reconnection sites in a low-beta plasma, which is typical under solar coronal conditions. Also, the reflection is larger for lower-beta frequency waves while high-frequency waves propagate outward from the reconnection region almost without the reflection. We discuss the implications of efficient wave reflection near magnetic reconnection sites in strongly magnetized coronal plasma for particle acceleration, and also the effect this might have on first ionization potential (FIP) fractionation by the ponderomotive force of these waves in the chromosphere.
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