Review on current sheets in CME development: theories and observations

J Lin, NA Murphy, C Shen, JC Raymond… - Space Science …, 2015 - Springer
We introduce how the catastrophe model for solar eruptions predicted the formation and
development of the long current sheet (CS) and how the observations were used to …

Electron and proton acceleration in trans-relativistic magnetic reconnection: dependence on plasma beta and magnetization

D Ball, L Sironi, F Özel - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Nonthermal electron acceleration via magnetic reconnection is thought to play an important
role in powering the variable X-ray emission from radiatively inefficient accretion flows …

Magnetic reconnection: from the Sweet–Parker model to stochastic plasmoid chains

NF Loureiro, DA Uzdensky - Plasma Physics and Controlled …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic reconnection is the topological reconfiguration of the magnetic field in a plasma,
accompanied by the violent release of energy and particle acceleration. Reconnection is as …

Turbulent magnetohydrodynamic reconnection mediated by the plasmoid instability

YM Huang, A Bhattacharjee - The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
It has been established that the Sweet–Parker current layer in high Lundquist number
reconnection is unstable to the super-Alfvénic plasmoid instability. Past two-dimensional …

Fast magnetic reconnection in the solar chromosphere mediated by the plasmoid instability

L Ni, B Kliem, J Lin, N Wu - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic reconnection in the partially ionized solar chromosphere is studied in 2.5
dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations including radiative cooling and ambipolar …

Plasmoid instability in evolving current sheets and onset of fast reconnection

YM Huang, L Comisso… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasmoid Instability in Evolving Current Sheets and Onset of Fast Reconnection - IOPscience
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Multi-fluid simulations of chromospheric magnetic reconnection in a weakly ionized reacting plasma

JE Leake, VS Lukin, MG Linton… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from the first self-consistent multi-fluid simulations of chromospheric
magnetic reconnection in a weakly ionized reacting plasma. We simulate two-dimensional …

Blobs in recurring extreme-ultraviolet jets

QM Zhang, HS Ji - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014 - aanda.org
Context. Coronal jets are one type of ubiquitous small-scale activity that is caused by
magnetic reconnection in the solar corona. They are often associated with cool surges in the …

Multifluid simulations of upper-chromospheric magnetic reconnection with Helium–Hydrogen mixture

QM Wargnier, J Martinez-Sykora… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Our understanding of magnetic reconnection (MR) under chromospheric conditions remains
limited. Recent observations have demonstrated the important role of ion–neutral …

Comptonization by reconnection plasmoids in black hole coronae II: Electron-ion plasma

N Sridhar, L Sironi… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We perform 2D particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic reconnection in electron-ion plasmas
subject to strong Compton cooling and calculate the X-ray spectra produced by this process …