Fast Magnetic Reconnection and Energetic Particle Acceleration
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2015-05-18 v1
Abstract
Our numerical simulations show that the reconnection of magnetic field becomes fast in the presence of weak turbulence in the way consistent with the Lazarian and Vishniac (1999) model of fast reconnection. We trace particles within our numerical simulations and show that the particles can be efficiently accelerated via the first order Fermi acceleration. We discuss the acceleration arising from reconnection as a possible origin of the anomalous cosmic rays measured by Voyagers.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1003.2637,
title = {Fast Magnetic Reconnection and Energetic Particle Acceleration},
author = {A. Lazarian and G. Kowal and E. Vishniac and E. de Gouveia dal Pino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.2637},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Planetary and Space Science