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三维磁层点的重联:电流片不对称性的影响

Reconnection at 3D Magnetic Null Points: Effect of Current Sheet Asymmetry

Peter F Wyper, Rekha Jain

摘要:

非对称电流片可能是普遍存在于天体物理和实验室等离子体与复杂的三维(3D)磁拓扑。这项工作提出了运动学分析模型的脊柱和风扇重联在一个对称的三维零不对称的电流片。非对称扇形重联的特征在于通过每个脊柱线的磁通量的非对称重联和穿过零点的等离子体的整体流动。相比之下,不对称的脊柱重连在通量如何跨扇形平面重连方面本质上是相等和相反的。更高的脊柱重联模式还包括在每一半的风扇的涡通量输送的局部楔形。在这种情况下,两个定义的重新连接率变得合适:一个本地重新连接率量化多少通量真正重新连接在整个风扇平面和一个全局率与净通量驱动在每个半平面。通过缩放分析,它表明,当欧姆耗散在层中被假定为常数,在局部率的增加流血从全球率作为片材变形的增加。这两种模型都表明,在当前片尺寸的不对称性将有一个深刻的影响,在涉及三维零重联通量传输的重联率和方式。

英文摘要:

Asymmetric current sheets are likely to be prevalent in both astrophysical and laboratory plasmas with complex three dimensional (3D) magnetic topologies. This work presents kinematic analytical models for spine and fan reconnection at a symmetric 3D null with asymmetric current sheets. Asymmetric fan reconnection is characterized by an asymmetric reconnection of flux past each spine line and a bulk flow of plasma across the null point. In contrast, asymmetric spine reconnection is inherently equal and opposite in how flux is reconnected across the fan plane. The higher modes of spine reconnection also include localized wedges of vortical flux transport in each half of the fan. In this situation, two definitions for reconnection rate become appropriate: a local reconnection rate quantifying how much flux is genuinely reconnected across the fan plane and a global rate associated with the net flux driven across each semi-plane. Through a scaling analysis it is shown that when the ohmic dissipation in the layer is assumed to be constant, the increase in the local rate bleeds from the global rate as the sheet deformation is increased. Both models suggest that asymmetry in the current sheet dimensions will have a profound effect on the reconnection rate and manner of flux transport in reconnection involving 3D nulls.

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