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On the Hall-mediated resistive tearing instability of highly elongated current sheets

Plasma Physics 2018-11-29 v1

Abstract

The present paper provides comprehensive description of various regimes involved in the two-fluid model of the resistive tearing instability. These include two novel regimes of this instability, which correspond to the long-wave modes that can develop in a highly-elongated current sheet. This issue is relevant to the study of fast magnetic reconnection and magnetic turbulence in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) objects with a large value of the Lundquist number.

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@article{arxiv.1811.11401,
  title  = {On the Hall-mediated resistive tearing instability of highly elongated current sheets},
  author = {Grigory Vekstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.11401},
  year   = {2018}
}