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arXiv 1503.06865physics.plasm-ph
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无碰撞等离子体中X形电流涡旋层引起的爆炸性磁重联

Explosive magnetic reconnection caused by an X-shaped current-vortex layer in a collisionless plasma

Makoto Hirota, Yuji Hattori, Philip J. Morrison

摘要:

在考虑电子惯性和温度影响的双流体模型中,通过分析无碰撞撕裂模的非线性演化,研究了爆炸性磁重联的机制.这些效应相互配合,通过形成以重联点为中心的X形电流涡旋层,实现快速重联。对满足$d_e=ρ_s$的空前小的电子趋肤深度$d_e$和离子声回旋半径$ρ_s$的该模型的高分辨率模拟显示出撕裂模的非线性增长的爆炸性趋势,最新发现,X-形状层局部地出现在重连点周围,其中X形状的长度短于畴长度,并且X形状层的波长短于畴长度。线性撕裂模式这种局部增强的重联发病的原因是理论上解释了开发一种新的非线性和非平衡的内部解决方案,模拟本地X形层,然后匹配到一个外部的解决方案,这是近似的线性撕裂本征模与较短的波长比域长度。该理论模型证明了局域重联能比整体重联更有效地释放磁能,并且爆炸增长率的估计标度与模拟结果吻合较好。

英文摘要:

A mechanism for explosive magnetic reconnection is investigated by analyzing the nonlinear evolution of a collisionless tearing mode in a two-fluid model that includes the effects of electron inertia and temperature. These effects cooperatively enable a fast reconnection by forming an X-shaped current-vortex layer centered at the reconnection point. A high-resolution simulation of this model for an unprecedentedly small electron skin depth $d_e$ and ion-sound gyroradius $ρ_s$, satisfying $d_e=ρ_s$, shows an explosive tendency for nonlinear growth of the tearing mode, where it is newly found that the explosive widening of the X-shaped layer occurs locally around the reconnection point with the length of the X shape being shorter than the domain length and the wavelength of the linear tearing mode. The reason for the onset of this locally enhanced reconnection is explained theoretically by developing a novel nonlinear and nonequilibrium inner solution that models the local X-shaped layer, and then matching it to an outer solution that is approximated by a linear tearing eigenmode with a shorter wavelength than the domain length. This theoretical model proves that the local reconnection can release the magnetic energy more efficiently than the global one and the estimated scaling of the explosive growth rate agrees well with the simulation results.

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