Stationary stagnation point flows in the vicinity of a 2D magnetic null point: I. Systems with vanishing electric field and an X-type magnetic null point
The appearance of eruptive space plasma processes, e.g., in eruptive flares as observed in the solar atmosphere, is usually assumed to be caused by magnetic reconnection. The process of magnetic reconnection is often connected with singular points of the magnetic field. We therefore analyse the system of stationary resistive/non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the vicinity of singular points of flow and field to determine the boundary between reconnection solutions and non-reconnective solutions. We find conditions to enable the plasma to cross the magnetic separatrices also inside the current sheet, close to the current maximum. The results provide us with the topological and geometrical skeleton of the resistive MHD fields. We therefore have to perform a local analysis of almost all non-ideal MHD solutions with a generalized non-idealness. We use Taylor expansions of the magnetic field, the velocity field and all other physical quantities, including the non-idealness, and with the method of a comparison of the coefficients, the non-linear resistive MHD system is solved analytically. It turns out that not every non-ideal flow is a reconnective flow and that pure resistive/non-ideal MHD only allows for reconnection-like solutions, even if the non-idealness is localized to the region around the magnetic null point. It is necessary that the flow close to the magnetic X-point is also of X-point type to guarantee positive dissipation of energy and annihilation of magnetic flux. If the non-idealness has only a one-dimensional, sheet-like structure, only one separatrix line can be crossed by the plasma flow, similar to reconnective annihilation solutions.
Stationary Resistive MHD Solutions Near an Isolated Three-Dimensional Magnetic Null
Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Science(捷克科学院天文研究所);Astronomical Institute, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University(查理大学数学物理学院天文研究所);Escuela de Ingeniería Civil, Universidad de Valparaíso(瓦尔帕莱索大学土木工程学院)
The existence of null points of flow and magnetic fields as prerequisites for the presence of astropauses and their co-location
Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences(捷克科学院天文研究所);Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University(查理大学数学与物理学院);Universidad de Valparaíso(瓦尔帕莱索大学)
Active chromospheric fibril singularity: Coordinated observations from Solar Orbiter, SST, and IRIS
University of Oslo(奥斯陆大学);NASA Goddard Space Flight Center(美国国家航空航天局戈达德太空飞行中心);George Mason University(乔治梅森大学);Sorbonne Université(索邦大学);Observatoire de Paris - PSL(巴黎天文台-PSL);École Polytechnique(巴黎综合理工学院);Institut Polytechnique de Paris(巴黎理工学院);CNRS(法国国家科学研究中心);Stockholm University(斯德哥尔摩大学);Statkraft AS(Statkraft公司)