Effects of the nonstationary reconnection of crossed magnetic fields
Abstract
The nonstationary reconnection of magnetic fields with a finite reconnection length is analyzed theoretically, and it is shown that reconnection leads to the formation of reconnecting flux tubes, becoming longer as they move along the magnetopause. The reconnecting tubes carry hot accelerated plasma and a reconnecting magnetic flux. The reconnection process is accompanied by current-sheet fluctuations and, under certain conditions, by erosion of the magnetopause.
- Publication:
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Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
- Pub Date:
- December 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988Ge&Ae..28..900S
- Keywords:
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- Crossed Fields;
- Geomagnetism;
- Interplanetary Magnetic Fields;
- Magnetic Field Reconnection;
- Boundary Value Problems;
- Current Sheets;
- Lines Of Force;
- Unsteady State