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The elongated bright structures above solar flare loops are suggested to be current sheets, where magnetic reconnection takes place. Observations have revealed various characteristics of the current sheet; however, their physical origin…

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One of the most important problems of magnetotail dynamics is the substorm onset and the related instability of the magneotail current sheet. Since the simplest 2D current sheet configuration with monotonic $B_z$ was proven to be stable to…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Chen Shi , Anton Artemyev , Marco Velli , Anna Tenerani

We study processes related to magnetic reconnection and plasma turbulence occurring in the presence of the heliopause (HP) and the heliospheric current sheet. It is shown that the interaction of plasmoids initiated by magnetic reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 M. Strumik , A. Czechowski , S. Grzedzielski , W. M. Macek , R. Ratkiewicz

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

We present the results of a numerical investigation of current-driven instability in magnetized jets. Utilizing the well-tested, relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code Athena, we construct an ensemble of local, co-moving plasma columns in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Sean M. O'Neill , Kris Beckwith , Mitchell C. Begelman

We study the collapse towards the gravitational radius of a macroscopic spherical thick shell surrounding an inner massive core. This overall electrically neutral macroshell is composed by many nested delta-like massive microshells which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 G. L. Alberghi , R. Casadio , D. Fazi

Magnetic reconnection can explosively release magnetic energy when opposing magnetic fields merge and annihilate through a current sheet, driving plasma jets and accelerating non-thermal particle populations to high energy, in plasmas…

We analyze the evolution of current driven kink instabilities of a highly magnetized relativistic plasma column, focusing in particular on its dissipation properties. The instability evolution leads to the formation of thin current sheets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 G. Bodo , G. Mamatsashvili , P. Rossi , A. Mignone

In order to understand the influence of magnetic fields on the propagation properties of waves, as derived from different local helioseismology techniques, forward modeling of waves is required. Such calculations need a model in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Khomenko , M. Collados

A flat elastic sheet may contain pointlike conical singularities that carry a metrical "charge" of Gaussian curvature. Adding such elementary defects to a sheet allows one to make many shapes, in a manner broadly analogous to the familiar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-02 Jemal Guven , J. A. Hanna , Osman Kahraman , Martin Michael Mueller

Turbulence in classical fluids is characterized by persistent structures that emerge from the chaotic landscape. We investigate the analogous process in fully kinetic plasma turbulence by using high-resolution, direct numerical simulations…

The properties of current sheets forming in a ion-kinetically turbulent collisionless plasma are investigated by utilizing the results of two-dimensional hybrid-kinetic numerical simulations. For this sake the algorithm proposed by Zhdankin…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Amirhassan Chatraee Azizabadi , Neeraj Jain , Jörg Büchner

In this paper we study the scaling relations for the triggering of the fast, or "ideal", tearing instability starting from equilibrium configurations relevant to astrophysical as well as laboratory plasmas that differ from the simple Harris…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Fulvia Pucci , Marco Velli , Anna Tenerani , Daniele Del Sarto

We propose a new mechanism to explain the radio Arc and threads in the Galactic Center by current sheets produced by local magnetic shears due to interaction of a moving cloud and the vertical field based on three-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yoshiaki Sofue , Hiromitsu Kigure , Kazunari Shibata

The NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale mission has made in situ diffusion region and kinetic-scale resolution measurements of asymmetric magnetic reconnection for the first time, in the Earth's magnetopause. The principal theoretical tool…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-11 O. Allanson , F. Wilson , T. Neukirch , Y. -H. Liu , J. D. B. Hodgson

The acceleration of charged particles (electrons and protons) in flaring solar active regions is analyzed by numerical experiments. The acceleration is modelled as a stochastic process taking place by the interaction of the particles with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Anastasiadis , C. Gontikakis , C. Efthymiopoulos

A current sheet, where magnetic energy is liberated through reconnection and is converted to other forms, is thought to play the central role in solar flares, the most intense explosions in the heliosphere. However, the evolution of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 L. P. Chitta , E. R. Priest , X. Cheng

A 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulation analysis of the energy release for three different reconnection regimes is presented. The system under investigation consists in a current-sheet located in a medium with a strong density…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-24 Lapo Bettarini , Giovanni Lapenta

The coupled attitude and orbit dynamics of solar sails is studied. The shape of the sail is a simplified quasi-rhombic-pyramid that provides the structure helio-stablility properties. After adimensionalisation, the system is put in the form…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Narcis Miguel , Camilla Colombo

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