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Weak Alfvénic turbulence in relativistic plasmas II: Current sheets and dissipation
B. Ripperda, J. F. Mahlmann, A. Chernoglazov +6
Alfvén waves as excited in black hole accretion disks and neutron star magnetospheres are the building blocks of turbulence in relativistic, magnetized plasmas. A large reservoir o…
Plasmoid Instability in High-Lundquist-Number Magnetic Reconnection
Yi-Min Huang, A. Bhattacharjee
Our understanding of magnetic reconnection in resistive magnetohydrodynamics has gone through a fundamental change in recent years. The conventional wisdom is that magnetic reconne…
Current Sheet Statistics in Three-Dimensional Simulations of Coronal Heating
L. Lin, C. S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee
In a recent numerical study [Ng et al., Astrophys. J. {\bf 747}, 109, 2012], with a three-dimensional model of coronal heating using reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD), we have ob…
Fast Reconnection in High-Lundquist-Number Plasmas Due to Secondary Tearing Instabilities
A. Bhattacharjee, Yi-Min Huang, H. Yang +1
Thin current sheets in systems of large size that exceed a critical value of the Lundquist number are unstable to a super-Alfvenic tearing instability. The scaling of the growth ra…