期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 644, 期 2, 页码 L145-L148出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/505690
关键词
magnetic fields; plasmas; Sun: corona; Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs); Sun: flares
资金
- NSF [PHY-0316197]
- DOE [ER54197, ER54784]
We present a model for the spontaneous onset of fast magnetic reconnection in a weakly collisional plasma, such as the solar corona. When sheared magnetic fields in the corona undergo collisional (Sweet-Parker) reconnection, a narrow dissipation region forms around the X-line. This dissipation region dynamically becomes narrower during the reconnection process as stronger magnetic fields are convected toward the X-line. When the dissipation region becomes thinner than the ion skin depth, resistive magnetohydrodynamics breaks down as the Hall effect becomes important, and the Sweet-Parker solution ceases to exist. A transition to collisionless (Hall) reconnection ensues, increasing the reconnection rate by many orders of magnitude in a very short time. Predictions of the model are consistent with constraints set by observations of solar flares.
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