A Review of the 0.1 Reconnection Rate Problem
Plasma Physics
2017-11-15 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Space Physics
Abstract
A long-standing problem in magnetic reconnection is to explain why it tends to proceed at or below a normalized rate of 0.1. This article gives a review of observational and numerical evidence for this rate and discusses recent theoretical work addressing this problem. Some remaining open questions are summarized.
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@article{arxiv.1708.03449,
title = {A Review of the 0.1 Reconnection Rate Problem},
author = {P. A. Cassak and Y. -H. Liu and M. A. Shay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.03449},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
16 pages, 4 figures, the manuscript was prepared for the first Journal of Plasma Physics Frontiers in Plasma Physics Conference, accepted to Journal of Plasma Physics, August 2017