Collisional ionisation and recombination effects on coalescence instability in chromospheric partially ionised plasmas | Giulia Murtas
Affiliation
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Main category
Natural Sciences (Astrophysics and Astrononmy)
Caption
Plasmoid-mediated fast magnetic reconnection plays a fundamental role in driving explosive dynamics and heating in the solar atmosphere, but relatively little is known about how it develops in partially ionised plasmas (PIP) of the chromosphere. Partial ionisation can largely alter the dynamics of the coalescence instability, which promotes fast reconnection and forms a turbulent reconnecting current sheet through plasmoid interaction, but it is still unclear to what extent PIP effects influence this process. In this talk, I investigate the role of collisional ionisation and recombination in the development of plasmoid coalescence: I will present 1D and 2.5D simulations of a two-fluid model of a partially ionised plasma (PIP) and show how the dynamics change in the presence and absence of
Further reading
Link to the European Solar Physics Online Seminars (ESPOS) webpage:
https://espos.stream/2022/05/12/Murtas/
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