The other is magnetic heating, in which magnetic energy is continuously built up by photospheric motion and released
through magnetic reconnection in the form of large solar flares and myriad similar but smaller events.
«We're able to probe very small scales and this helps us to really pinpoint how energy is being converted
through magnetic reconnection,» Argall said.
Not exact matches
Space Physicists led by Lancaster University used data to show that Cassini had passed
through the region at Saturn where
magnetic reconnection was occurring, which has never before been observed.
Magnetic reconnection, in addition to pushing around clouds of plasma, converts some magnetic energy into heat, which has an effect on just how much energy is left over to move the particles throug
Magnetic reconnection, in addition to pushing around clouds of plasma, converts some
magnetic energy into heat, which has an effect on just how much energy is left over to move the particles throug
magnetic energy into heat, which has an effect on just how much energy is left over to move the particles
through space.
The mass loading required in this model can be achieved
through interaction with the interstellar medium (ISM), the sputtering of the dwarf atmosphere by auroral currents, a volcanically active orbiting planet or
magnetic reconnection in the photosphere.
When a current runs
through the
magnetic field lines, they snap shut and pinch off, a process called
magnetic reconnection, essentially forming a
magnetic «balloon» filled with the current needed to fuel fusion while also confining the plasma.
Electric currents are one way that this energy from
magnetic reconnection is carried
through the system.