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Comisso, L.; Asenjo, F.A. |
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Thermal-Inertial Effects on Magnetic Reconnection in Relativistic Pair Plasmas |
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2014 |
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Physical Review Letters |
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Phys. Rev. Lett. |
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113 |
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4 |
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5 pp |
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The magnetic reconnection process is studied in relativistic pair plasmas when the thermal and inertial properties of the magnetohydrodynamical fluid are included. We find that in both Sweet-Parker and Petschek relativistic scenarios there is an increase of the reconnection rate owing to the thermal-inertial effects, both satisfying causality. To characterize the new effects we define a thermal-inertial number which is independent of the relativistic Lundquist number, implying that reconnection can be achieved even for vanishing resistivity as a result of only thermal-inertial effects. The current model has fundamental importance for relativistic collisionless reconnection, as it constitutes the simplest way to get reconnection rates faster than those accessible with the sole resistivity. |
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[Comisso, Luca] Politecn Torino, Dipartimento Energia, I-10129 Turin, Italy, Email: luca.comisso@polito.it; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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English |
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0031-9007 |
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WOS:000339620300007 |
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UAI @ eduardo.moreno @ |
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393 |
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