Reconnection Outflow Generated Turbulence in the Solar Wind

Vörös, Z., Y. L. Sasunov, V. S. Semenov, T. V. Zaqarashvili, R. Bruno, and M. Khodachenko, Reconnection Outflow Generated Turbulence in the Solar Wind, ApJ, 797, L10 (2014) (ADS)

The cartoon

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The creation of turbulence in the reconnection outflow, possibly involving the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability [1]. This would in principle drive turbulence in the solar wind, at least locally. Here the machinery looks like that of the Longcope school of gas-dynamical CSHKP. Note the avoidance of the confusion of moving field lines, with more sensible flux tubes taking their place.


[1] Foullon et al. 2013

Date: 2019 December 30