Proof-of-principle experiment on control of ion flow and ion heating during magnetic reconnection

2004 ◽  
Vol 148 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Yukihiro Murata ◽  
Yasushi Ono
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Ion Heating ◽  
Ion Flow ◽  
Proof Of Principle

scholarly journals Ion heating resulting from pickup in magnetic reconnection exhausts

2009 ◽  
Vol 114 (A5) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Drake ◽  
M. Swisdak ◽  
T. D. Phan ◽  
P. A. Cassak ◽  
M. A. Shay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Ion Heating

scholarly journals The competition of electron and ion heating during magnetic reconnection

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (22) ◽  
pp. 9657-9665 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Haggerty ◽  
M. A. Shay ◽  
J. F. Drake ◽  
T. D. Phan ◽  
C. T. McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Ion Heating

scholarly journals Electron and Ion Heating Characteristics during Magnetic Reconnection in the MAST Spherical Tokamak

2015 ◽  
Vol 115 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Tanabe ◽  
T. Yamada ◽  
T. Watanabe ◽  
K. Gi ◽  
K. Kadowaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Spherical Tokamak ◽  
Ion Heating

scholarly journals Experimental Results of Ion Heating by Magnetic Reconnection Using External Coils

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (0) ◽  
pp. 3402038-3402038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuji KAMIO ◽  
Takenori G WATANABE ◽  
Kotaro YAMASAKI ◽  
Qinghong CAO ◽  
Takuma YAMADA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Ion Heating

scholarly journals Lower Hybrid Drive in Solar Magnetic Reconnection Regions: Implications for Electron Acceleration and Solar Heating

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iver H. Cairns
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Charge Exchange ◽  
Electron Acceleration ◽  
Solar Radio Emission ◽  
Lower Hybrid ◽  
Neutral Atmosphere ◽  
Ion Heating ◽  
Lower Corona ◽  
The Magnetic Field

AbstractLower hybrid (LH) drive involves the resonant acceleration of electrons parallel to the magnetic field by lower hybrid waves, often driven by ions with ring or ring-beam distributions. Charge-exchange between hydrogen atoms and protons with relative motions perpendicular to the magnetic field leads to ring distributions of pickup ions, with concomitant perpedicular ion ‘heating’. This paper considers the combination of LH drive and charge-exchange in the outflow regions of magnetic reconnection sites in the solar chromosphere and lower corona, showing that the combined mechanism naturally predicts major perpendicular ion heating and parallel electron acceleration, and exploring the mechanism’s relevance to specific solar reconnection phenomena, heating of the solar atmosphere, and production of energetic electrons that generate solar radio emission. Although primarily qualitative, analysis shows that the mechanism has numerous attractive aspects, including perpendicular ion heating that increases linearly with ion mass, parallel electron acceleration, predicted ion and electron temperatures that span those of the chromosphere and lower corona, and parallel electron speeds spanning those for type III bursts. Applications to chromospheric explosive events and low-lying active regions, and to heating the chromosphere, appear particularly suitable. Sweeping of plasma frozen-in to chromospheric and coronal magnetic field lines across the neutral atmosphere due to motions of sub-photospheric fields represents an obvious and important generalisation of the mechanism away from reconnection sites. The requirements that the neutrals not be strongly collisionally coupled to the plasma and that sufficient neutrals are available for charge-exchange restricts the LH drive mechanism to above the photosphere but below where the corona is essentially fully ionised. LH drive may thus be important in heating the chromosphere and low corona while other heating mechanisms dominate at higher altitudes. Although attractive thus far, quantitative analyses of LH drive in these contexts are necessary before definitive conclusions are reached.

Energy budgets in collisionless magnetic reconnection: Ion heating and bulk acceleration

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 122901 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Aunai ◽  
G. Belmont ◽  
R. Smets
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Energy Budgets ◽  
Ion Heating
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