Plasmoid-dominated Turbulent Reconnection in a Low $\beta$ Plasma
| Autor: | Zenitani, Seiji, Miyoshi, Takahiro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Astrophysical Journal Letters, 894, L7 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.3847/2041-8213/ab8b5d |
| Popis: | Properties of plasmoid-dominated turbulent reconnection in a low-$\beta$ background plasma are investigated by resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. In the $\beta_{\rm in} < 1$ regime, where $\beta_{\rm in}$ is plasma $\beta$ in the inflow region, the reconnection site is dominated by shocks and shock-related structures and plasma compression is significant. The effective reconnection rate increases from $0.01$ to $0.02$ as $\beta_{\rm in}$ decreases. We hypothesize that plasma compression allows faster reconnection rate, and then we estimate a speed-up factor, based on a compressible MHD theory. We validate our prediction by a series of MHD simulations. These results suggest that the plasmoid-dominated reconnection can be twice faster than expected in the $\beta \ll 1$ environment in a solar corona. Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures; f90 codes are attached; see ancillary files in the "Other formats" link |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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