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Resonant absorption of Alfven Waves and the Associated Phenomenon of Magnetic Reconnection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

C. Uberoi
C. Uberoi*
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012.

Abstract

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The mathematical analysis of the Alfven Wave equation in inhomogeneous magnetic fields which explain the resonance absorption of Alfven surface waves near a resonant layer can also be used to show that magnetic reconnection process can arise near the zero frequency resonant layer driven by very low frequency Alfven surface waves. The associated phenomena of resonant absorption and magnetic reconnection in inhomogeneous plasmas can explain the recent obsrevations of intense magnetic activity in the long period geomagnetic micropulsations range, at magnetospheric cusp latitudes, during the time of occurence of flux transfer events.

Type
VI. Chromospheric and Coronal Heating
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 142: Basic Plasma Processes on the Sun , 1990 , pp. 245 - 249
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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