Magnetic reconnection: MHD theory and modelling

DI Pontin, ER Priest - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2022 - Springer
In this review we focus on the fundamental theory of magnetohydrodynamic reconnection,
together with applications to understanding a wide range of dynamic processes in the solar …

Magnetic reconnection

M Yamada, R Kulsrud, H Ji - Reviews of modern physics, 2010 - APS
The fundamental physics of magnetic reconnection in laboratory and space plasmas is
reviewed by discussing results from theory, numerical simulations, observations from space …

Role of electron physics in the development of turbulent magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas

W Daughton, V Roytershteyn, H Karimabadi, L Yin… - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
Magnetic reconnection releases energy explosively as field lines break and reconnect in
plasmas ranging from the Earth's magnetosphere to solar eruptions and astrophysical …

Geospace Environmental Modeling (GEM) magnetic reconnection challenge

J Birn, JF Drake, MA Shay, BN Rogers… - Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The Geospace Environmental Modeling (GEM) Reconnection Challenge project is
presented and the important results, which are presented in a series of companion papers …

Magnetic reconnection in plasmas

D Biskamp - Astrophysics and Space Science, 1996 - Springer
A review of the present status of the theory of magnetic reconnection is given. In strongly
collisional plasmas reconnection proceeds via resistive current sheets, ie quasi-stationary …

The search-coil magnetometer for MMS

O Le Contel, P Leroy, A Roux, C Coillot, D Alison… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
The tri-axial search-coil magnetometer (SCM) belongs to the FIELDS instrumentation suite
on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission (Torbert et al. in Space Sci. Rev.(2014) …

Magnetic reconnection in the space sciences: Past, present, and future

M Hesse, PA Cassak - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic reconnection converts, often explosively, stored magnetic energy to particle
energy in space and in the laboratory. Through processes operating on length scales that …

An emerging flux trigger mechanism for coronal mass ejections

PF Chen, K Shibata - The Astrophysical Journal, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
Observations indicate that reconnection-favored emerging flux has a strong correlation with
coronal mass ejectons (CMEs). Motivated by this observed correlation and based on the flux …

Intermittency, nonlinear dynamics and dissipation in the solar wind and astrophysical plasmas

WH Matthaeus, M Wan, S Servidio… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
An overview is given of important properties of spatial and temporal intermittency, including
evidence of its appearance in fluids, magnetofluids and plasmas, and its implications for …

New measure of the dissipation region in collisionless magnetic reconnection

S Zenitani, M Hesse, A Klimas, M Kuznetsova - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
A new measure to identify a small-scale dissipation region in collisionless magnetic
reconnection is proposed. The energy transfer from the electromagnetic field to plasmas in …