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Catastrophic onset of fast magnetic reconnection with a guide field

Phys. Plasmas 14, 054502 (2007); doi:10.1063/1.2734948

Published 11 May 2007

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P. A. Cassak and J. F. Drake
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742

M. A. Shay
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716
It was recently shown that the slow (collisional) Sweet-Parker and the fast (collisionless) Hall magnetic reconnection solutions simultaneously exist for a wide range of resistivities; reconnection is bistable [Cassak, Shay, and Drake, Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 235002 (2005)]. When the thickness of the dissipation region becomes smaller than a critical value, the Sweet-Parker solution disappears and fast reconnection ensues, potentially explaining how large amounts of magnetic free energy can accrue without significant release before the onset of fast reconnection. Two-fluid numerical simulations extending the previous results for anti-parallel reconnection (where the critical thickness is the ion skin depth) to component reconnection with a large guide field (where the critical thickness is the thermal ion Larmor radius) are presented. Applications to laboratory experiments of magnetic reconnection and the sawtooth crash are discussed. ©2007 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 25 January 2007; accepted 4 April 2007; published 11 May 2007
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 52.35.Vd
    Magnetic reconnection in plasmas
  • 52.30.Cv
    Plasma magnetohydrodynamics including electron magnetohydrodynamics
  • 52.25.Fi
    Plasma transport properties
  • 52.30.Ex
    Two-fluid and multi-fluid plasmas
  • 52.65.Kj
    Magnetohydrodynamic and fluid equation (plasma simulation)
  • 52.35.Py
    Plasma macroinstabilities (hydromagnetic) e.g., kink, fire-hose, mirror, ballooning, tearing, trapped-particle, flute, Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, etc
  • YEAR: 2007

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