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Fluid and kinetic structure of magnetic merging in the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment
Author(s) -
Matthaeus W. H.,
Cothran C. D.,
Landreman M.,
Brown M. R.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2005gl023973
Subject(s) - spheromak , physics , magnetic field , lorentz force , magnetic reconnection , plane (geometry) , lorentz transformation , kinetic energy , spacecraft , computational physics , field (mathematics) , electric field , magnetohydrodynamics , classical mechanics , mechanics , quantum electrodynamics , geophysics , astronomy , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
Measurement of the in‐plane Lorentz force and the out‐of‐plane magnetic field associated with the Hall electric field near the reconnection zone in the Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment (SSX) confirms expectations, based on simulation, theory and spacecraft data, that the quadrupolar out‐of‐plane magnetic field is a signature of collisionless effects in magnetic reconnection with a weak guide field.