Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Direct evidence of secondary reconnection inside filamentary currents of magnetic flux ropes during magnetic reconnection

  • Shimou Wang,
  • Rongsheng Wang,
  • Quanming Lu,
  • Huishan Fu,
  • Shui Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17803-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process of magnetic energy conversion to kinetic energy. Here, the authors show direct evidence of secondary reconnection in the filamentary currents within the flux ropes indicating a significant contribution to energy conversion in the kinetic scale during turbulent reconnection.