Reconnection in Roiling Magnetic Fields (VIDEO)

University of California - Berkeley

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Intense electric currents (bright regions in the animation) form between magnetic islands of the magnetosheath turbulence. Magnetic reconnection (not shown) occurs in such current layers to dissipate turbulent magnetic energy.

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Colby Haggerty, University of Chicago, and Tulasi Parashar, University of Delaware

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