Current sheet evolution based on results of spectrotomographic studies
Abstract
Two-dimensional distributions of the self-radiation of a current sheet plasma at the HeI and HeII spectral lines in a continuum have been obtained by processing experimental data by the Monte Carlo method of computed tomography. The electron temperature in the current sheet is found to be significantly higher than in the ambient space and is strongly inhomogeneous within the sheet. Maximum electron temperature values are achieved in the central part of the current sheet, which is characterized by the highest probability of magnetic island formation.
- Publication:
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Fizika Plazmy
- Pub Date:
- December 1992
- Bibcode:
- 1992FizPl..18.1545V
- Keywords:
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- Computer Aided Tomography;
- Current Sheets;
- Plasma Radiation;
- Plasma Spectra;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Monte Carlo Method;
- Radiation Distribution;
- Plasma Physics