INTEGRABILITY OF CHARGED-PARTICLE DYNAMICS IN RECONNECTION REGIONS

Authors
LARSON JW TRACY ER
Citation
Jw. Larson et Er. Tracy, INTEGRABILITY OF CHARGED-PARTICLE DYNAMICS IN RECONNECTION REGIONS, Physics letters. A, 182(2-3), 1993, pp. 249-254
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759601
Volume
182
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
249 - 254
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(1993)182:2-3<249:IOCDIR>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Painleve singularity analysis is applied to a simple model for charged particle motion in magnetic reconnection regions. We identify two fie ld geometries for which test-particle motion is integrable; i.e. there exists a complete set of isolating integrals: the neutral sheet confi guration and the circular O-line magnetic field. Both of these systems are solvable in terms of the second Painleve transcendent. An infinit e set of weak Painleve candidates is also discussed.