First-principles theory of the rate of #MagneticReconnection in magnetospheric and solar plasmas: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-022-00854-x / First-Principles Theory of the Relativistic #Magnetic #Reconnection Rate in Astrophysical Pair Plasmas: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12111 -> The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions - a new theory describes how particle interactions fuel fast magnetic reconnection, the process behind solar #flares and other astrophysical #jets: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-tiny-physics-behind-immense-cosmic-eruptions-20230515/
NatureFirst-principles theory of the rate of magnetic reconnection in magnetospheric and solar plasmas - Communications PhysicsDifferent models exist to characterize magnetic reconnection, a process that converts magnetic energy into plasma thermal and kinetic energy, but a quantitative theoretical predictive model of how rapidly it proceeds has been lacking. Here, a self-consistent theory of the reconnection rate derived from first principles, and confirmed with numerical simulations, provides a new understanding of reconnection in solar flares and geomagnetic substorms.