Magnetic Field Structure and Stochastic Reconnection in a Partially Ionized Gas

We consider stochastic reconnection in a magnetized, partially ionized medium. Stochastic reconnection is a generic effect that results from field line wandering, in which the speed of reconnection is determined by the ability of ejected plasma to diffuse away from the current sheet along magnetic field lines, rather than by the details of current sheet structure. As in earlier work, in which we dealt with a fully ionized plasma, we consider …