Electromagnetic Fluctuations during Fast Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma
- 18 March 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 92 (11), 115001
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.92.115001
Abstract
Experimental evidence for a positive correlation is established between the magnitude of electromagnetic fluctuations up to the lower-hybrid frequency range and enhancement of reconnection rates in a well-controlled laboratory plasma. The fluctuations belong to the right-hand polarized whistler wave branch, propagating obliquely to the reconnecting magnetic field, with a phase velocity comparable to the relative drift velocity between electrons and ions. The measured short coherence lengths indicate their strongly nonlinear nature.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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