Fast Reconnection in High-Lundquist-Number Plasmas Due to Secondary Tearing Instabilities

By Yi-Min Huang, A. Bhattacharjee, H. Yang, B. Rogers. 2009

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• Slow Solar Wind: Observations and Modeling (2016, unknown): “The transition between the SP and the plasmoid regime has been predicted (Loureiro et al. 2007) and shown in practice (Skender and Lapenta 2010; Bhattacharjee et al. 2009; Uzdensky et al. 2010) to happen at a critical value of the Lundquist number SC = 104.”
• Modelling Quasi-Periodic Pulsations in Solar and Stellar Flares (2018, background): “This instability is called the plasmoid instability and leads to the formation of plasmoids in a current sheet (Tanuma et al. 2001; Loureiro et al. 2007; Bhattacharjee et al. 2009), where plasmoids are magnetically-confined plasma.”
• PARTICLE ACCELERATION AND PLASMA DYNAMICS DURING MAGNETIC RECONNECTION IN THE MAGNETICALLY DOMINATED REGIME (2015, background): “This process may also be important when a hierarchy of collisional plasmoids (Loureiro et al. 2007; Bhattacharjee et al. 2009; Uzdensky et al. 2010) develops kinetic scale current layers that may trigger collisionless reconnection (Daughton et al. 2009; Ji & Daughton 2011).”
• Magnetic Reconnection and Hot Spot Formation in Black Hole Accretion Disks (2020, background): “…5×10−4, 10−3, 5× 10−3], chosen such that the corresponding Lundquist numbers S = Lc/η ∈ [∞, 105, 4 × 104, 2 × 104, 104, 2 × 103, 103, 2× 102] range from infinity (ideal GRMHD) to well above and below the threshold for plasmoid forma- tion Sth ≈ 104 (Bhattacharjee et al. 2009; Uzdensky et al. 2010).”
• The Interplay of Magnetically Dominated Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection in Producing Nonthermal Particles (2019, background): “…in our simulations) can break the reconnection layer into shorter elements, consequently leading to a regime of fast nonlinear reconnection (Daughton et al. 2006; Daughton & Karimabadi 2007; Daughton et al. 2009; Bhattacharjee et al. 2009; Huang & Bhattacharjee 2010; Uzdensky et al. 2010).”