Extreme ultra-violet burst, particle heating, and whistler wave emission in fast magnetic reconnection induced by kink-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Chai, Kil-Byoung; Zhai, Xiang; Bellan, Paul M.

doi:10.1063/1.4944390

Title: Extreme ultra-violet burst, particle heating, and whistler wave emission in fast magnetic reconnection induced by kink-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Journal Article · Tue Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4944390· OSTI ID:1468982

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California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Applied Physics and Materials Science

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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Research Organization:: California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-04ER54755; SC0010471; 1348393; FA9550-11-1-0184

OSTI ID:: 1468982

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1242867

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 23, Issue 3; ISSN 1070-664X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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