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The magnetic fields can change their topology through a process known as magnetic reconnection. This process in not only important for understanding the origin and evolution of the large-scale magnetic field, but is seen as a possibly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Grzegorz Kowal , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian

Decimetric radio observations of the impulsive solar flare on October 5, 1992, 09:25 UT show a long series of quasi-periodic pulsations deeply modulating a continuum in the 0.6-2 GHz range that is slowly drifting toward lower frequencies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Kliem , M. Karlicky , A. O. Benz

We use kinetic particle-in-cell and magnetohydrodynamic simulations supported by an observational dataset to investigate magnetic reconnection in clusters of null points in space plasma. The magnetic configuration under investigation is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-29 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Andrey Divin , Elin Eriksson , Stefano Markidis , Giovanni Lapenta

Using high resolution adaptive mesh refinement simulations in 3D, we investigate the formation of relativistic jets from rotating magnetospheres. Here, we focus on the development of non-axisymmetric modes due to internal and external…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Oliver Porth

Magnetic reconnection in naturally occurring and laboratory settings often begins locally and elongates, or spreads, in the direction perpendicular to the plane of reconnection. Previous work has largely focused on current sheets with a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Milton Arencibia , P. A. Cassak , M. A. Shay , Jiong Qiu , Steven M. Petrinec , Haoming Liang

Magnetic reconnection in the low atmosphere, e.g. chromosphere, is investigated in various physical environments. Its implications for the origination of explosive events (small--scale jets) are discussed. A 2.5-dimensional resistive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Y. Ding , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle , Q. M. Lu

A standard model for eruptive flares aims at describing observational 3D features of the reconnecting coronal magnetic field. Extensions to the 2D model require the physical understanding of 3D reconnection processes at the origin of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Miho Janvier , Guillaume Aulanier , Etienne Pariat , Pascal Demoulin

The highly dynamical, complex nature of the solar atmosphere naturally implies the presence of waves in a topologically varied magnetic environment. Here, the interaction of waves with topological features such as null points is inevitable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. W. Threlfall , C. E. Parnell , I. De Moortel , K. G. McClements , T. D. Arber

We study the statistics of dynamical quantities associated with magnetic reconnection events embedded in a sea of strong background magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence using direct numerical simulations. We focus on the relationship of the…

Solar flares are powerful radiations occuring in the Sun's atmosphere. They are powered by magnetic reconnection, a phemonenon that can convert magnetic energy into other forms of energy such as heat and kinetic energy, and it is believed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Miho Janvier

Detection of a separator line that connects magnetic nulls and the determination of the dynamics and plasma environment of such a structure can improve our understanding of the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic reconnection process. However,…

The density decreases exponentially with height in the solar gravitationally stratified atmosphere, therefore the collisional coupling between the ionized plasma and the neutrals also decreases. Here, we investigate the role of collisions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 B. Popescu Braileanu , R. Keppens

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Zining Ren , Yulei Wang , Xin Cheng , Mingde Ding

The out-of-plane magnetic field, generated by fast magnetic reconnection, during collisionless, stressed $X$-point collapse, was studied with a kinetic, 2.5D, fully electromagnetic, relativistic particle-in-cell numerical code, using both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-16 J. Graf von der Pahlen , D. Tsiklauri

We investigate the onset of 2D time-dependent magnetic reconnection that is triggered using an external velocity driver located away from, and perpendicular to, an equilibrium Harris current sheet. Previous studies have typically utilised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 B. Snow , G. J. J. Botha , J. A. McLaughlin , A. Hillier

This work employs Hall magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to study the X-lines formed during the reconnection of magnetic fields with differing strengths and orientations embedded in plasmas of differing densities. Although random…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. Schreier , M. Swisdak , J. F. Drake , P. A. Cassak

We investigate the impact of turbulence on magnetic reconnection through high-resolution 3D magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations, spanning Lundquist numbers from $S=10^3$ to $10^6$. Building on Lazarian and Vishniac's (1999) theory,…

A fully three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model is applied to simulate the evolution of the large-scale magnetic field in cluster galaxies interacting with the intra-cluster medium (ICM). As the model input we use a time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , B. Vollmer

Magnetic reconnection is a process of magnetic field topology change, which is one of the most fundamental processes in magnetized plasmas. In most astrophysical environments the Reynolds numbers are large and therefore the transition to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Alex Lazarian , Gregory L. Eyink , Ethan T. Vishniac , Grzegorz Kowal

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) theory and simulations have shown that reconnection is triggered via a fast "ideal" tearing instability in current sheets whose inverse aspect ratio decreases to $a/L\sim S^{-1/3}$, with $S$ is the Lundquist number…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Chen Shi , Anna Tenerani , Marco Velli , San Lu