COMPRESSIBILITY EFFECT DURING DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEARING INSTABILITY IN A NONNEUTRAL CURRENT SHEET IN THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE

Authors
VERNETA AI SOMOV BU
Citation
Ai. Verneta et Bu. Somov, COMPRESSIBILITY EFFECT DURING DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEARING INSTABILITY IN A NONNEUTRAL CURRENT SHEET IN THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE, ASTRONOM ZH, 70(3), 1993, pp. 556-562
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
ASTRONOMICESKIJ ZURNAL
ISSN journal
00046299 → ACNP
Volume
70
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
556 - 562
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-6299(1993)70:3<556:CEDDOT>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
It is shown that plasma compressibility leads to development of the te aring instability for a reconnecting current sheet in the long-wave re gion in which for an incompressible plasma the instability is absent. Longitudinal magnetic field plays the role of a trigger in such proces s of destabilization which is of principal importance for physics of f lares and other non-steady phenomena in the solar atmosphera.