Current sheets at three-dimensional magnetic nulls: Effect of compressibility

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Pontin, D I ^a,c   Bhattacharjee, A ^a   Galsgaard, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CURRENT SHEETS; MAGNETIC NULLS; PEAK CURRENT; SHEARING PERTURBATIONS;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 34249889943     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2734949     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. I. Klapper, A. Rado, and M. Tabor, Phys. Plasmas 3, 4281 (1996).
2. E. R. Priest and V. S. Titov, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London, Ser. A 354, 2951 (1996).
3. S. V. Bulanov and J. Sakai, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 66, 3477 (1997).
4. D. I. Pontin and I. J. D. Craig, Phys. Plasmas 12, 072112 (2005).
5. D. I. Pontin, A. Bhattacharjee, and K. Galsgaard, Phys. Plasmas 14, 052106 (2007).
6. D. W. Longcope, D. S. Brown, and E. R. Priest, Phys. Plasmas 10, 3321 (2003).
7. R. M. Close, C. E. Parnell, and E. R. Priest, Sol. Phys. 225, 21 (2005).
8. L. Fletcher, T. R. Metcalf, D. Alexander, D. S. Brown, and L. A. Ryder, Astrophys. J. 554, 451 (2001).
9. I. Ugarte-Urra, H. P. Warren, and A. R. Winebarger, " The magnetic topology of coronal mass ejection sources., " Astrophys. J. (in press).
10. C. J. Xiao, X. G. Wang, Z. Y. Pu, H. Zhao, J. X. Wang, Z. W. Ma, S. Y. Fu, M. G. Kivelson, Z. X. Liu, Q. G. Zong, Nat. Phys. 2, 478 (2006).
11. S. Y. Bogdanov, V. B. Burilina, V. S. Markov, and A. G. Frank, JETP Lett. 59, 537 (1994).
12. C. E. Parnell, J. M. Smith, T. Neukirch, and E. R. Priest, Phys. Plasmas 3, 759 (1996).
13. Y. T. Lau and J. M. Finn, Astrophys. J. 350, 672 (1990).
14. D. I. Pontin, G. Hornig, and E. R. Priest, Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn. 98, 407 (2004).
15. D. I. Pontin, G. Hornig, and E. R. Priest, Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn. 99, 77 (2005).
16. I. J. D. Craig and S. M. Henton, Astrophys. J. 450, 280 (1995).
17. I. J. D. Craig and R. B. Fabling, Astrophys. J. 462, 969 (1996).
18. I. J. D. Craig and R. B. Fabling, Phys. Plasmas 5, 635 (1998).
19. K. Galsgaard and A. Nordlund, J. Geophys. Res. 102, 231 (1997).
20. V. Archontis, F. Moreno-Insertis, K. Galsgaard, A. Hood, and E. O'Shea, Astron. Astrophys. 426, 1074 (2004).
21. E. R. Priest and T. G. Forbes, Magnetic Reconnection: MHD Theory and Applications (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000).
22. E. R. Priest, V. S. Titov, R. E. G. Grundy, and A. W. Hood, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A 456, 1821 (2000).
23. P. G. Watson and F. Porcelli, Astrophys. J. 617, 1353 (2004).
24. E. Tassi, V. S. Titov, and G. Hornig, Phys. Plasmas 12, 112902 (2005).
25. E. R. Priest, in Solar and Astrophysical MHD Flows, edited by, K. Tsinganos, (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1996), pp. 151-170.
26. Y. E. Litvinenko, T. G. Forbes, and E. R. Priest, Sol. Phys. 167, 445 (1996).
27. G. W. Inverarity and E. R. Priest, Phys. Plasmas 3, 3591 (1996).
28. I. J. D. Craig, R. B. Fabling, and P. G. Watson, Astrophys. J. 485, 383 (1997).
29. I. J. D. Craig, R. B. Fabling, S. M. Henton, and G. J. Rickard, Astrophys. J. Lett. 455, L197 (1995).
30. J. Heerikhuisen and I. J. D. Craig, Sol. Phys. 222, 95 (2004).
31. Z. W. Ma, C. S. Ng, X. Wang, and A. Bhattacharjee, Phys. Plasmas 2, 3184 (1995).
32. S. V. Bulanov and M. A. Olshanetsky, Sov. J. Plasma Phys. 11, 425 (1985).
33. G. J. Rickard and V. S. Titov, Astrophys. J. 472, 840 (1996).
34. D. I. Pontin and K. Galsgaard, J. Geophys. Res. 112, A03103 (2007).
35. V. S. Titov, E. Tassi, and G. Hornig, Phys. Plasmas 11, 4662 (2004).