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Current sheet formation under radiative cooling

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Simran Chowdhry *
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Nuno Loureiro
DOI:10.1017/S0022377825100949delete
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We present a simple, analytically solvable magnetohydrodynamics model of current sheet formation through X-point collapse under optically thin radiative cooling. Our results show that cooling accelerates the collapse of the X-point along the inflows, but strong cooling can arrest or even reverse the current sheet elongation in the outflow direction. Hence, we detail a modification to the radiatively cooled Sweet-Parker model developed by Uzdensky & McKinney (Phys. Plasmas, 1962, vol. 18, issue 4, p. 042105) to allow for varying current sheet length. The steady-state solution shows that, when radiative cooling dominates compressional heating, the current sheet length is shorter than the system size, with an increased reconnection rate compared with the classical Sweet-Parker rate. The model and subsequent results lay out the groundwork for a more complete theoretical understanding of magnetic reconnection in regimes dominated by optically thin radiative cooling.
Keyword:
astrophysical plasmas
space plasma physics
plasma dynamics

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Journal of Plasma Physics
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论文数:
91
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