Magnetic reconnection in the galactic halo

被引:4
作者
Birk, GT [1 ]
Lesch, H [1 ]
Zimmer, F [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Munich, Inst Astron & Astrophys, D-81679 Munich, Germany
来源
PHYSICA SCRIPTA | 1998年 / T74卷
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D O I
10.1088/0031-8949/1998/T74/018
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Magnetic reconnection may play an important role for the energetics in the galactic halo. We study the reconnection process in a partially ionized plasma system, that is appropriate to model the interaction of a high-velocity cloud with the galactic disk, by means of plasma-neutral gas fluid simulations. In the considered configurations reconnection rather results in heating than in significant plasma acceleration and thus may contribute to the formation of X-ray emission regions at the edges of high-velocity clouds.
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页码:89 / 92
页数:4
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