Orthogonal, untwisted flux tube reconnection (NN6) with Lagrangian particle tracers
Mark Linton and Eric Priest
Single tube, cosine profile for B
z
with S=375, v
max
=0
NN6 cosine profile for B
z
with S=375, v
max
=v
A
/10
NN6 cosine profile for B
z
with S=3750, v
max
=v
A
/10
NN6 cosine profile for B
z
with S=3750, v
max
=v
A
/5
NN6 cosine profile for B
z
with S=3750, v
max
=v
A
/20
Approx. time to peak current for 4 NN6 cosine profiles: [120,250,150,450]
For v
max
/v
A
= [1/10,1/10,1/5,1/20]
For S= [375,3750,3750,3750]
So time to peak current scales roughly as
a) 1/v
max
, giving 2:1:4 versus the actual ratio of 1.7:1:3
b) ln(S), giving 1:2.3 versus the actual ratio of 1:2.1
NN6 parabolic profile for B
z