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Extreme ultra-violet burst, particle heating, and whistler wave emission in fast magnetic reconnection induced by kink-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability
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- Chai, Kil-Byoung
- Zhai, Xiang
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Bellan, Paul M.
Abstract
A spatially localized energetic extreme ultra-violet (EUV) burst is imaged at the presumed position of fast magnetic reconnection in a plasma jet produced by a coaxial helicity injection source; this EUV burst indicates strong localized electron heating. A circularly polarized high frequency magnetic field perturbation is simultaneously observed at some distance from the reconnection region indicating that the reconnection emits whistler waves and that Hall dynamics likely governs the reconnection. Spectroscopic measurement shows simultaneous fast ion heating. The electron heating is consistent with Ohmic dissipation, while the ion heating is consistent with ion trajectories becoming stochastic.
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© 2016 AIP Publishing LLC. Received 24 November 2015; accepted 3 March 2016; published online 22 March 2016. This material was based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences under Award Nos. DE-FG02-04ER54755 and DE-SC0010471, by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 1348393, and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award No. FA9550-11-1-0184.Attached Files
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- 67825
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- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-FG02-04ER54755
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-SC0010471
- NSF
- AGS-1348393
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- FA9550-11-1-0184
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