2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2026
Counter-streaming heat-flux closure for electron-only collisionless magnetic reconnection
Madox C. McGrae-Menge, Jacob R. Pierce, Maria Almanza +6
In electron-only collisionless magnetic reconnection (MR), a regime of growing importance in turbulent space plasmas, electrons develop strongly non-Maxwellian distributions that i…
physics.plasm-ph2025
Current sheet formation under radiative cooling
Simran Chowdhry, Nuno F. Loureiro
We present a simple, analytically solvable MHD model of current sheet formation through X-point collapse under optically thin radiative cooling. Our results show that cooling accel…