2024/05/21 by Jianfu Zhang, Zhang, Jian-Fu, Shi-Min Liang +3
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Magnetic Properties and Applications #Magnetic properties of thin films
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.12430
openalex publication_date 2024/05/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process for releasing magnetic energy in space physics and astrophysics. At present, the usual way to investigate the reconnection process is through analytical studies or first-principles numerical simulations. This paper is the first to understand the turbulent magnetic reconnection process by exploring the nature of magnetic turbulence. From the perspective of radio synchrotron polarization statistics, we study how to recover the properties of the turbulent magnetic field by considering the line of sight along different directions of the reconnection layer. We find that polarization intensity statistics can reveal the spectral properties of reconnection turbulence. This work opens up a new way of understanding turbulent magnetic reconnection.