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In the solar corona, magnetic reconnection occurs due to the finite resistivity of the plasma. At the same time, resistivity leads to ohmic heating. Therefore, the reconnecting current sheet should heat the surrounding plasma. This paper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Anton Reva , Sergey Bogachev , Ivan Loboda , Artem Ulyanov , Alexey Kirichenko

Magnetic field embedded in a perfectly conducting fluid preserves its topology for all time. Although ionized astrophysical objects, like stars and galactic disks, are almost perfectly conducting, they show indications of changes in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-03-16 A. Lazarian , G. Kowal , E. Vishniac , K. Kulpa-Dubel , K. Otmianowska-Mazur

Magnetic reconnection, a plasma process converting magnetic energy to particle kinetic energy, is often invoked to explain magnetic energy releases powering high-energy flares in astrophysical sources including pulsar wind nebulae and black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-17 Gregory R. Werner , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

We present a one-fluid pair plasma magnetohydrodynamical model for asymmetric relativistic magnetic reconnection that incorporates the thermal-inertial effects of the plasma. We find the general scaling relation for the reconnection rate in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Maricarmen A. Winkler , Felipe A. Asenjo

Hinode observations have revealed intermittent recurrent plasma ejections/jets in the chromosphere. These are interpreted as a result of non-perfectly anti-parallel magnetic reconnection, i.e. component reconnection, between a twisted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 N. Nishizuka , Y. Hayashi , H. Tanabe , A. Kuwahata , Y. Kaminou , Y. Ono , M. Inomoto , T. Shimizu

Magnetic reconnection is a process that changes magnetic field topology in highly conducting fluids. Traditionally, magnetic reconnection was associated mostly with solar flares. In reality, the process must be ubiquitous as astrophysical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A Lazarian , G. Eyink , E. Vishniac , G. Kowal

We study the process of magnetic field annihilation and reconnection in simulations of magnetised solar photosphere and chromosphere with magnetic fields of opposite polarities and constant numerical resistivity. Exact analytical solutions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 S. Shelyag , Y. E. Litvinenko , V. Fedun , G. Verth , J. J. González-Avilés , F. S. Guzmán

The spontaneous evolution of magnetic reconnection in generalized situations (with thermodynamic asymmetry regarding the current sheet and magnetic shear) is investigated using two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation. We focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Shin-ya Nitta , Koji Kondoh

We study the magnetic reconnection during a flare by investigating flare ribbon dynamics using observations and data-constrained magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulation. In particular, we estimate the reconnection flux and the reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Sushree S Nayak , Qiang Hu , Wen He , Sanjay Kumar , Ramit Bhattacharyya

Magnetic reconnection is understood to be the main physical process that facilitates the transformation of magnetic energy into heat, motion, and particle acceleration during solar eruptions. Yet, observational constraints on reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Marcel F. Corchado Albelo , Maria D. Kazachenko , Benjamin J. Lynch

The orientation and stability of the reconnection x-line in asymmetric geometry is studied using three-dimensional (3D) particle-in-cell simulations. We initiate reconnection at the center of a large simulation domain to minimize the…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Yi-Hsin Liu , Michael Hesse , Tak Chu Li , Masha Kuznetsova , Ari Le

Magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasmas is a ubiquitous phenomenon spanning the range from laboratory to intergalactic scales, yet it remains poorly understood and relatively little studied. Here, we present results from a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 James E Leake , Vyacheslav S Lukin , Mark G Linton

Time-dependent resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations are carried out to study a flux rope eruption caused by magnetic reconnection with implication in coexistent flare-CME (coronal mass ejection) events. An early result obtained in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Z. Zhang , J. X. Wang , Y. Q. Hu

We use 3D fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations to study the occurrence of magnetic reconnection in a simulation of decaying turbulence created by anisotropic counter-propagating low-frequency Alfv\'en waves consistent with…

We investigated the dynamic evolution of a 3-dimensional (3D) flux rope eruption and magnetic reconnection process in a solar flare, by simply extending 2-dimensional (2D) resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulation model of solar flares with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-18 Keisuke Nishida , Naoto Nishizuka , Kazunari Shibata

Magnetic reconnection plays a crucial role in violent energy conversion occurring in the environments of high electrical conductivity, such as the solar atmosphere, magnetosphere, and fusion devices. We focus on the morphological features…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Lin , S. R. Cranmer , C. J. Farrugia

Magnetic reconnection requires the violation of the frozen-in condition which ties gyrating charged particles to the magnetic field inhibiting diffusion. Ongoing reconnection has been identified in near-Earth space as being responsible for…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-01-24 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

A broad variety of observational methods allows us to see the effect of magnetic reconnection in high-temperature strongly-magnetized plasma of the solar corona. Some specific features of the large-scale reconnection in large solar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-23 B. V. Somov , S. I. Bezrodnykh , L. S. Ledentsov

Magnetic reconnection is essential to release the flux rope during its ejection. The question remains: how does the magnetic reconnection change the flux rope structure? Following the original study of \citet{Qiu2007}, we compare properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-30 Qiang Hu , Jiong Qiu , B. Dasgupta , A. Khare , G. M. Webb

We present the first observation of a solar filament formed by magnetic reconnection and associated chromospheric evaporation and subsequent coronal condensation. Driven by shearing motion during flux emergence, a sequential tether-cutting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Bo Yang , Jiayan Yang , Yi Bi , Junchao Hong , Zhe Xu