Journal article
Reconnection in a weakly stochastic field
Abstract
We examine the effect of weak, small-scale magnetic field structure on the rate of reconnection in a strongly magnetized plasma. This affects the rate of reconnection by reducing the transverse scale for reconnection flows and by allowing many independent flux reconnection events to occur simultaneously. Allowing only for the first effect and using Goldreich & Sridhar's model of strong turbulence in a magnetized plasma with negligible …
Authors
Lazarian A; Vishniac ET
Journal
Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 517, No. 2 PART 1, pp. 700–718
Publication Date
June 1, 1999
DOI
10.1086/307233
ISSN
0004-637X