Extreme ultra-violet burst, particle heating, and whistler wave emission in fast magnetic reconnection induced by kink-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability
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 also 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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- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Applied Physics and Materials Science
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- Research Org.:
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1468982
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1242867
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-04ER54755; SC0010471; 1348393; FA9550-11-1-0184
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; stochastic processes; magnetic reconnection; emission spectroscopy; magnetic energy; plasma confinement; flow instabilities; chemical elements; leptons; Whistler waves; plasma instabilities
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Chai, Kil-Byoung, Zhai, Xiang, and Bellan, Paul M. Extreme ultra-violet burst, particle heating, and whistler wave emission in fast magnetic reconnection induced by kink-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4944390.
Chai, Kil-Byoung, Zhai, Xiang, & Bellan, Paul M. Extreme ultra-violet burst, particle heating, and whistler wave emission in fast magnetic reconnection induced by kink-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4944390
Chai, Kil-Byoung, Zhai, Xiang, and Bellan, Paul M. Tue .
"Extreme ultra-violet burst, particle heating, and whistler wave emission in fast magnetic reconnection induced by kink-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4944390. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1468982.
@article{osti_1468982,
title = {Extreme ultra-violet burst, particle heating, and whistler wave emission in fast magnetic reconnection induced by kink-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability},
author = {Chai, Kil-Byoung and Zhai, Xiang and Bellan, Paul M.},
abstractNote = {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 also shows simultaneous fast ion heating. The electron heating is consistent with Ohmic dissipation, while the ion heating is consistent with ion trajectories becoming stochastic.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4944390},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 3,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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