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Magnetic reconnection, often accompanied by turbulence interaction, is a ubiquitous phenomenon in astrophysical environments. However, the current understanding of the nature of turbulent magnetic reconnection remains insufficient. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-26 Shi-Min Liang , Jian-Fu Zhang , Na-Na Gao , Nian-Yu Yi

How energy is converted into thermal energy in weakly collisional and collisionless plasma processes such as magnetic reconnection and plasma turbulence has recently been the subject of intense scrutiny. The pressure-strain interaction has…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 M. Hasan Barbhuiya , Paul A. Cassak

Magnetic reconnection -- a fundamental plasma physics process, where magnetic field lines of opposite polarity annihilate -- is invoked in astrophysical plasmas as a powerful mechanism of nonthermal particle acceleration, able to explain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Lorenzo Sironi , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Dimitrios Giannios

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process associated with conversion of the embedded magnetic field energy into kinetic and thermal plasma energy, via bulk acceleration and Ohmic dissipation. In many high-energy astrophysical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Longqing Yi , Baifei Shen , Alexander Pukhov , Tünde Fülöp

Magnetic reconnection, or the ability of the magnetic field lines that are frozen in plasma to change their topology, is a fundamental problem of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We briefly examine the problem starting with the well-known…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Lazarian , J. Cho

In strongly magnetized astrophysical plasma systems, magnetic reconnection is believed to be a primary process during which explosive energy release and particle acceleration occur, leading to significant high-energy emission. Past years…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Fan Guo , Xiaocan Li , William Daughton , Hui Li , Patrick Kilian , Yi-Hsin Liu , Qile Zhang , Haocheng Zhang

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process that converts magnetic energy into bulk flow energy, thermal energy, and nonthermal particle acceleration. Despite its importance, the statistical properties of the turbulent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 Yue Hu , Luca Comisso , Lorenzo Sironi , Siyao Xu

We test a new technique of studying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence suggested by Lazarian \& Pogosyan, using synthetic synchrotron polarization observations. This paper focuses on a one-point statistics, which is termed the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 Jian-Fu Zhang , Alex Lazarian , Hyeseung Lee , Jungyeon Cho

Astrophysical reconnection takes place in a turbulent medium. The turbulence in most cases is pre-existing, not caused by the reconnection itself. The model of magnetic reconnection in Lazarian & Vishniac (1999) predicts that in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-09 A. Lazarian , G. Kowal , B. Gouveia dal Pino

Astrophysical fluids are generically turbulent, which means that frozen-in magnetic fields are, at least, weakly stochastic. Therefore realistic studies of astrophysical magnetic reconnection should include the effects of stochastic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-31 A. Lazarian , E. Vishniac , G. Kowal

Magnetic reconnection is a sporadic process responsible for energy release in space and laboratory plasmas. It is believed that the tearing mode instability may be responsible for the onset of reconnection in the magnetotail. However, due…

We discuss inverse problem of detection turbulence magnetic field helical properties using radio survey observations statistics. In this paper, we present principal solution which connects magnetic helicity and correlation between Faraday…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-19 A. Volegova , R. Stepanov

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 the first statistical study of magnetic structures and associated energy dissipation observed during a single period of turbulent magnetic reconnection, by using the \textit{in-situ} measurements of the Magnetospheric Multiscale…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 K. Bergstedt , H. Ji , J. Jara-Almonte , J. Yoo , R. E. Ergun , L. -J. Chen

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence plays a critical role in many key astrophysical processes such as star formation, acceleration of cosmic rays, and heat conduction. However, its properties are still poorly understood. We explore how to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-30 Ru-Yue Wang , Jian-Fu Zhang , Fang Lu , Fu-Yuan Xiang

We investigate how to recover the spectral properties of underlying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence using fluctuation statistics of synchrotron polarization radiation, based on the synthetic observations. Taking spatially coincident,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Jian-Fu Zhang , Alex Lazarian , Fu-Yuan Xiang

We study the role of turbulence in magnetic reconnection, within the framework of magneto-hydrodynamics, using three-dimensional direct numerical simulations. For small turbulent intensity we find that the reconnection rate obeys…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 Rohit Sharma , Dhrubaditya Mitra , Divya Oberoi

Magnetic reconnection and turbulence are deeply intertwined in magnetohydrodynamic flows, yet how reconnection self-generates turbulence remains unclear. Using an ensemble of high-resolution three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Nick Williams , Alessandro De Rosis , Alex Skillen

Turbulence is a chaotic flow regime filled by irregular flows. The dissipation of turbulence is a fundamental problem in the realm of physics. Theoretically, dissipation cannot be ultimately achieved without collisions, and so how turbulent…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-01-01 Y. Wang , F. S. Wei , X. S. Feng , X. J. Xu , J. Zhang , T. R. Sun , P. B. Zuo

We present results of Reynolds-averaged turbulence model simulation on the problem of magnetic reconnection. In the model, in addition to the mean density, momentum, magnetic field, and energy equations, the evolution equations of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Fabien Widmer , Jörg Büchner , Nobumitsu Yokoi