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