质体
磁重联
辐射冷却
物理
辐射传输
天体物理学
核物理学
等离子体
光学
作者
R. Datta,K. M. Chandler,C. E. Myers,J. P. Chittenden,Aidan Crilly,C. Aragón,David Ampleford,Jacob Banasek,Aaron Edens,W. Fox,Stephanie B. Hansen,Eric Harding,Christopher Jennings,Hantao Ji,Carolyn Kuranz,S. V. Lebedev,Quinn Looker,Sonal Patel,Andrew Porwitzky,Gabriel Shipley,Dmitri Uzdensky,D. A. Yager-Elorriaga,Jack Hare
标识
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.132.155102
摘要
We present the first experimental study of plasmoid formation in a magnetic reconnection layer undergoing rapid radiative cooling, a regime relevant to extreme astrophysical plasmas. Two exploding aluminum wire arrays, driven by the Z machine, generate a reconnection layer (SL≈120) in which the cooling rate far exceeds the hydrodynamic transit rate (τhydro/τcool>100). The reconnection layer generates a transient burst of >1 keV x-ray emission, consistent with the formation and subsequent rapid cooling of the layer. Time-gated x-ray images show fast-moving (up to 50 km s−1) hotspots in the layer, consistent with the presence of plasmoids in 3D resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations. X-ray spectroscopy shows that these hotspots generate the majority of Al K-shell emission (around 1.6 keV) prior to the onset of cooling, and exhibit temperatures (170 eV) much greater than that of the plasma inflows and the rest of the reconnection layer, thus providing insight into the generation of high-energy radiation in radiatively cooled reconnection events.Received 8 January 2024Accepted 5 March 2024DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.155102© 2024 American Physical SocietyPhysics Subject Headings (PhySH)Research AreasMagnetic reconnectionPlasma Physics
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