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Alfvén resonances and forced reconnection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1999

CHANCHAL UBEROI and
ELLEN G. ZWEIBEL
CHANCHAL UBEROI
Affiliation:
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USAPermanent address: Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
ELLEN G. ZWEIBEL
Affiliation:
JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 440, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA
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Abstract

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The correspondence between the forced magnetic reconnection induced by perturbing the boundary of the simple Taylor model and the surface-wave-induced magnetic reconnection given by Alfvén resonance theory is pointed out explicitly by showing that the theory of forced magnetic reconnection is actually embedded in the Alfvén resonance theory. The advantages of viewing the forced reconnection as surface-wave-induced reconnection are briefly discussed in the context of the formation of small-scale structures at the magnetospheric boundary and solar coronal heating.

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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , September 1999, pp. 345 - 350
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press