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Summary of Conference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Vytenis M. Vasyliunas
Vytenis M. Vasyliunas*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie Katlenburg-Lindau, Federal Republic of Germany

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For a meeting of people from such widely different fields, this Symposium has exhibited a remarkable degree of unity. There has been one key concept running as a thread throughout the Symposium: the concept of magnetic field line reconnection, or magnetic field line merging as I prefer to call it. It was dealt with directly in many papers, and many others dealt indirectly with it and various related aspects. The concept was applied in the Symposium to an amazing variety of objects and was examined from many points of view and by many different techniques. Magnetic field line reconnection or merging is a paradoxical concept. It clearly depends upon magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); for example, constraints imposed by the MHD relation between the magnetic field and the plasma flow are essential to set it up - without these constraints (if, for example, the electric field parallel to the magnetic field could assume any desired value) the problems we discuss under the heading of magnetic reconnection would merely be moderately complicated problems of magnetostatics. At the same time, departures from ideal MHD are also an essential and unavoidable part of the concept.

Type
Session IX
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 107: Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities , 1985 , pp. 529 - 536
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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