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Compressible magnetic-field reconnexion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Eliezer Hameiri
Eliezer Hameiri
Affiliation:
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, Now York 10012
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Abstract

The Sonnerup solution for reconnexion about an X-type magnetic null point is modified to involve only stable shocks. However, the reconnexion process described does not originate at the line breaking point but is engineered by precise boundary conditions in the inflow region. Our solution is also valid in the compressible case. The limit on the reconnexion rate (in Mach number units) is about 1·5. A non-uniqueness of the solution raises the possibility of viewing flare phenomena as abrupt jumps to different branches of the solution.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , October 1979 , pp. 245 - 256
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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