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Proceedings of the DO.4 Symposium of COSPAR Scientific Commission D which was held during the Thirty-First COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Birmingham, UK, 14-21 July 1996
Edited by
E.R. Priest, School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews KY16 9SS, UK
D.N. Baker, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Campus Box 392, Boulder, CO 80309-0392, USA
Included in series
Advances in Space Research, 19/12
Description
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process in a space, solar or astrophysical plasma. It changes the connectivity of plasma elements
and has wide-ranging consequences, including the conversion of magnetic energy into other forms and the acceleration of particles by
a variety of mechanisms. A series of numerical experiments have recently stimulated a new generation of fluid theories, with current
hot topics including the 3D nature of reconnection and its properties in a collisionless plasma. The applications include energy release
to heat the solar corona and power solar flares and connectivity changes in flux transfer events and geomagnetic substorms in the Magnetosphere.
Containing 38 papers divided into four chapters, the present volume represents the proceedings of a memorable two-day symposium held
during the COSPAR General Assembly on the theory and applications of reconnection in the Sun's corona and Earth's magnetosphere.
Audience
For astronomers, astrophysicists, space scientists.
Contents
Chapter headings and selected papers: Basic MHD Theory.
Theory of reconnection in two dimensions (M.F. Heyn). The role of helicity
in the reconnection process (G. Hornig, L. Rastätter). Analytical MHD model of three-dimensional time-dependent reconnection in
a compressible plasma (V.S. Semenov et al.).
Collisionless Reconnection.
Collisionless reconnection in the magnetotail
(P.L. Pritchett). Electron inertia and small-scale magnetic structures in a nonuniform collisionless plasma (F. Pegoraro et al.).
Ion dynamics of magnetic reconnection in the magnetotail (M. Hoshino et al.).
Solar Reconnection.
Yohkoh observations
of the solar corona (J.L. Culhane). Coronal heating by reconnection (C.E. Parnell). 3-D reconnection related to new emerging flux (B.
Schmieder et al.).
Magnetospheric Reconnection.
Current sheet with medium scale developed turbulence and the formation
of the plasma sheet of Earth's magnetosphere and solar prominences (E.E. Antonova, I.L. Ovchinnikov). Reconnection during substorms and
solar flares (A.I. Podgorny, I.M. Podgorny). Dayside reconnection during IMF northward: a possible foreshock effect (T.L. Zhang et
al.).
Author Index.
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Paperback, 230 pages, publication date: JUL-1997
ISBN-13: 978-0-08-043292-2
ISBN-10: 0-08-043292-1
Imprint: PERGAMON
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