In this review we focus on the fundamental theory of magnetohydrodynamic reconnection,
together with applications to understanding a wide range of dynamic processes in the solar …

Magnetic reconnection is a topological rearrangement of magnetic field that converts
magnetic energy to plasma energy. Astrophysical flares, from the Earth's magnetosphere to …

An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics is a comprehensive, well-organized and engaging
text covering every major area of modern astrophysics, from the solar system and stellar …

Thin current sheets in systems of large size that exceed a critical value of the Lundquist
number are unstable to a super-Alfvénic tearing instability, referred to hereafter as the …

The question of what heats the solar corona remains one of the most important problems in
astrophysics. Finding a definitive solution involves a number of challenging steps, beginning …

Current sheets formed in magnetic reconnection events are found to be unstable to high-
wavenumber perturbations. The instability is very fast: its maximum growth rate scales as S …

The rate of magnetic reconnection is of the utmost importance in a variety of processes
because it controls, for example, the rate energy is released in solar flares, the speed of the …

We study the effects of turbulence on magnetic reconnection using three-dimensional direct
numerical simulations. This is the first attempt to test a model of fast magnetic reconnection …

A long-standing problem in magnetic reconnection is to explain why it tends to proceed at or
below a normalized rate of 0.1. This article gives a review of observational and numerical …

The Sweet–Parker layer in a system that exceeds a critical value of the Lundquist number
(S) is unstable to the plasmoid instability. In this paper, a numerical scaling study has been …