Hostname: page-component-cb9f654ff-plnhv Total loading time: 0.001 Render date: 2025-08-24T12:05:57.214Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Laboratory Experiments on Reconnection in Current Sheets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

A. Bratenahl  and
P. J. Baum
A. Bratenahl
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California Riverside, CA 92521
P. J. Baum
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California Riverside, CA 92521

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Laboratory reconnection experiments dedicated to problems of space and astrophysics are briefly reviewed with the purpose of demonstrating that such experiments can provide important insights of considerable value to the development of reconnection theory. Moreover, many of these insights are of a kind not likely to be perceived either when working directly with space observations or while pursuing a course of pure theoretical reasoning without reference to laboratory results.

References

Alfven, H.: 1976, J. Geophys. Res. 81, pp. 4019–4021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Alfven, H. and Carlquist, P.: Solar Phys. 1, pp. 220–228.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Babcock, H.W.: 1961, Astrophys. J. 133, pp. 572–587.Google Scholar
Baum, P.J. and Bratenahl, A.: 1974, Phys. Fluids 17, pp. 1232–1235.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baum, P.J. and Bratenahl, A.: 1976, Solar Phys. 47, pp. 331–334.Google Scholar
Baum, P.J. and Bratenahl, A.: 1980, Adv. Electron. Electron Phys. 54, (Adademic Press, Inc.), pp. 1–67.Google Scholar
Baum, P.J. and Bratenahl, A.: 1980b, Rept. 80-01, Inst. Geophys. Planet. Phys., Univ. of Calif., Los Alamos, NM.Google Scholar
Baum, P.J. and Bratenahl, A.: 1980a, Solar Phys. 67, pp. 245–258.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baum, P.J. and Bratenahl, A.: 1982, in Lingenfelter, R.E., Hudson, H.S., Worrell, D.M. (eds.), Gamma Ray Transients and Related Astrophysical Phenomena, Amer. Inst. of Physics, NY, pp. 433–442.Google Scholar
Baum, P.J., Bratenahl, A., and White, R.S.: 1973, Phys. Fluids 16, pp. 226–230.Google Scholar
Baum, P.J., Bratenahl, A., Kao, M., and White, R.S.: 1973, Phys. Fluids 16, pp. 1501–1504.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baum, P.J., Bratenahl, A., and Kamin, G.: 1978, Ap. J. 226, pp. 286–300.Google Scholar
Baum, P.J., Bratenahl, A., Crockett, G., and Kamin, G.: 1979, Solar Phys. 62, pp. 53–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Beeler, R.G. Jr.: 1979, , Univ. of Calif., Riverside, CA.Google Scholar
Birkhoff, G.: 1950, Hydrodynamics, A Study in Logic, Fact and Similitude, Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Bratenahl, A. and Baum, P.J.: 1976a, Solar Phys. 47, pp. 345–360.Google Scholar
Bratenahl, A. and Baum, P.J.: 1976b, Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc. 46, pp. 259–293.Google Scholar
Bratenahl, A. and Baum, P.J.: 1982, EOS Trans., Am. Geophys. U. 63, p. 1063.Google Scholar
Bratenahl, A. and Baum, P.J.: 1983, J. Geophys. Res. 88, pp. 503–505.Google Scholar
Bratenahl, A. and Hirsch, W.: 1966, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 11, p. 580.Google Scholar
Bratenahl, A. and Yeates, C.M.: 1970, Phys. Fluids 13, pp. 2646–2709.Google Scholar
Bratenahl, A., Baum, P.J., and Adams, W.M.: 1980, in Dryer, M. and Tandberg-Hanssen, E. (eds.), Solar and Interplanetary Dynamics, IAU Symp. 91, pp. 29–32.Google Scholar
Bobrova, N.A. and Syrovatskii, S.I.: 1979, Solar Phys. 61, pp. 379–387.Google Scholar
Bulanov, S.V. and Syrovatskii, S.I.: 1976, in Basov, N.G. (ed.), Neutral Current Sheets in Plasmas, Proc. (Trudy) P.N. Lebedev Physics Inst., Vol. 72, Consultants Bureau, NY, pp. 87–106.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Carlquist, P.: 1982, Astrophys. and Space Sci. 87, pp. 21–39.Google Scholar
Cragin, B.L. and Heikkila, W.J.: 1981, Rev. Geophys. and Space Phys. 19, pp. 223–229.Google Scholar
Dailey, C.L.: 1972, TRW Interim Sci. Prog. Rept. for AFOSR Contract, TRW Corp., El Segundo, CA.Google Scholar
Dubov, E.E.: 1971, Solar Phys. 18, pp. 43–59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dungey, J.W.: 1953, Philos. Mag. 44, pp. 725–738.Google Scholar
Dungey, J.W.: 1958, Cosmic Electrodynamics, Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Forbes, T.G. and Speiser, T.W.: 1979, J. Plasma Phys. 21, pp 107–126.Google Scholar
Frank, A.G.: 1976, in Basov, N.G. (ed.), Neutral Current Sheets in Plasmas, Proc. (Trudy) P.N. Lebedev Physics Inst., Vol. 74, Consultants Bureau, NY, pp. 107–163.Google Scholar
Furth, H.P., Killeen, J., and Rosenbluth, M.N.: 1963, Phys. Fluids 6, pp. 459–484.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gabriel, A.H.: 1976, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London Ser. A. 281, pp. 339–352.Google Scholar
Gerlakh, N.I. and Syrovatskii, S.I.: 1976, in Basov, N.G. (Ed.), Neutral Current Sheets in Plasmas, Proc. (Trudy) P.N. Lebedev Physics Inst., Vol. 74, Consultants Bureau, NY, pp. 73–86.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Heikkila, W.J. and Pellinen, R.J.: 1977, J. Geophys. Res. 82, pp. 1610–1614.Google Scholar
Heikkila, W.J., Pellinen, R.J., Falthammar, C.-G., and Block, L.P.: 1979, Planet Space Sci. 27, pp. 1383–1389.Google Scholar
Ionson, J.A.: 1985, IAU Symp. 107 (this volume).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kawashima, N., and Ohyabu, N.: 1971, Inst. Space and Aero. Sci., University of Tokyo, Rept. No. 464, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 175–185.Google Scholar
Kaburaki, O.: 1975, Tohoku University Science Rept. Ser. 1, Vol. 43, pp. 141–149.Google Scholar
Kirii, N.P., Markov, V.S., Frank, A.G., and Khodzhaev, A.Z.: 1977, Sov. J. Plasma Phys. 3, pp. 303–306.Google Scholar
Konopinski, E.J.: 1981, Electromagnetic Fields and Relativistic Particles, McGraw-Hill Book Co. Google Scholar
Kopp, A.K. and Kuperus, M.: 1968, Solar Phys. 4, pp. 212–223.Google Scholar
Machado, M.E., Somov, B.V., Bobrova, M.G., and De Jager, C.: 1982, Solar Phys. 85, pp. 157–184.Google Scholar
Ohybu, N. and Kawashima, N.: 1972, J. Phys. Soc. Japan 33, pp. 496–501.Google Scholar
Ohyabu, N., Okamuru, S., and Kawashima, N.: 1974, Phys. Fluids 17, pp. 2009–2013.Google Scholar
Overskei, D.: 1976, , Mass. Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA.Google Scholar
Overskei, D. and Politzer, P.: 1976, Phys. Fluids 19, p. 683.Google Scholar
Petschek, H.E.: 1964, in Hess, W.N. (ed.), AAS-NASA Symposium on the Physics of Solar Flares, NASA SP-50, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, DC, pp. 425–439.Google Scholar
Pneuman, G.W., Hansen, S.F., and Hansen, R.T.: 1978, Solar Phys. 59, pp. 313–330.Google Scholar
Podgorny, I.M., and Sagdeev, R.Z.: 1970, Sov. Phys. Uspekhi 98, pp. 445–462.Google Scholar
Priest, E.R. and Raadu, M.A.: 1975, Solar Phys. 43, pp. 177–188.Google Scholar
Sakurai, T. and Uchida, : 1977, Solar Phys. 52, pp. 397–416.Google Scholar
Sheeley, N.R., Bohlin, J.D., Bruekner, G.E., Purcell, J.D., Scherrer, V.E., and Towsey, R.: 1975, Ap. J. (Lett.) 196, pp. 129–131.Google Scholar
Sonnerup, B.U.O.: 1979, in Lanzerotti, L.T., Kennel, C. F., and Parker, E.N. (eds.), Solar System Plasma Physics, Chapt. III.1.2, pp. 45–108.Google Scholar
Sonnerup, B.U.O.: 1983, Report of the Working Group on Reconnection. To be published in Proc. NASA Solar Terrestrial Physics Workshop, Berkeley Springs, WV.Google Scholar
Somov, B.V. and Syrovatskii, S.I.: 1976, in Basov, N.G. (ed.), Neutral Current Sheets in Plasmas, Proc. (Trudy) P.N. Lebedev Physics Inst., Vol. 74, Consultants Bureau, NY., pp. 13–71.Google Scholar
Stenzel, R.L.: 1985, IAU Symp. 107 (this volume, see also extensive references herein).Google Scholar
Stenzel, R.L., Gekelman, W., and Wild, N.: 1983, J. Geophys. Res. 88, p. 507–508.Google Scholar
Sweet, P.A.: 1958a, Nuovo Cimento Suppl. 8, pp. 188–196.Google Scholar
Sweet, P.A.: 1958b, in Lehnert, B. (ed.), Electromagnetic Phenomena in Cosmical Physics, IAU Symp. No. 6, Cambridge Univ. Press, London and New York, pp. 123–134.Google Scholar
Sweet, P.A.: 1969, Ann. Rev. Astron. Ast. 2, pp. 149–176.Google Scholar
Syrovatskii, S.I.: 1976, in Basov, N.G. (ed.), Neutral Current Sheets in Plasmas, Proc. (Trudy) P.N. Lebedev Physics Inst., Vol. 74, Consultants Bureau, NY, pp, 1–11.Google Scholar
Syrovatskii, S.I.: 1977, Sov. Phys. Lebedev Inst. Rep. (Engl. Transl.) 5, pp. 9–12.Google Scholar
Syrovatskii, S.I.: 1978a, Solar Phys. 56, pp. 3–12.Google Scholar
Syrovatskii, S.I.: 1978b, Solar Phys. 58, pp. 89–94.Google Scholar
Syrovatskii, S.I.: 1981, Ann. Rev. Astron. Ast. 19, pp. 163–229.Google Scholar
Syrovatskii, S.I., Frank, A.G., and Khodzhaev, : 1973, Sov. Phys. Tech. Phys. 18, pp. 580–586.Google Scholar
Van Hoven, G.: 1976, Solar Phys. 49, pp. 95–116.Google Scholar
Vasyliunas, V.M.: 1976, Rev. Geophys. Space Phys. 13, pp. 303–336.Google Scholar
Withbroe, G.L. and Noyes, R.W.: 1977, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 15, pp. 363–387.Google Scholar
Yeh, T. and Axford, I.: 1970, J. Plasma Phys. 4, pp. 207–339.Google Scholar
Zwaan, C.: 1978, Solar Phys. 60, pp. 213–240.Google Scholar