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Theory of magnetic reconnection in three dimensions |
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| Authors: | J Birn M Hesse K Schindler |
| Institution: | a Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A. b NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S.A. c Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany |
| Abstract: | Magnetic reconnection in traditional, two-dimensional theory can be closely associated with topological properties of the magnetic field, separatrices, neutral lines, or separators. Such well-defined topological properties may no longer exist, or become hopelessly complicated, in more general three-dimensional configurations, that otherwise behave physically quite similarly to the two-dimensional configurations. We discuss generalized definitions of reconnection applied to such situations and illustrate typical properties with simulations of three-dimensional reconnection in the magnetotail. |
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