Topology of turbulence within collisionless plasma reconnection.

ABSTRACT: In near-collisionless plasmas, which are ubiquitous in astrophysics, entropy production relies on fully-nonlinear processes such as turbulence and reconnection, which lead to particle acceleration. Mechanisms for turbulent reconnection include multiple magnetic flux ropes interacting to generate thin current sheets which undergo reconnection, leading to mixing and magnetic merging and growth of coherent structures, unstable reconnection current layers that fragment and turbulent reconnection outflows. All of these processes act across, and encompass, multiple reconnection sites. We use Magnetospheric Multi Scale four-point satellite observations to characterize the magnetic field line topology within a single reconnection current layer. We examine magnetopause reconnection where the spacec

SUBMITTER: Hnat B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10618222 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature