Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares

这笔赠款将继续资助美国国家科学基金会对太阳耀斑中的磁场重联进行数值和分析研究。这项新工作将扩展研究领域，以包括更多种类的可能耀斑配置，并包括耀斑演化的后期阶段。为在这方面提供帮助，将为一名研究生研究助理提供支助。磁重联是实验室、空间和天体物理等离子体中的一个基本过程。这里资助的小组阐明了重新连接的一些主要特征，从而澄清了其他研究人员大约20年的工作。

This grant will continue NSF funding for a numerical and analytical study of magnetic reconnection in solar flares. The new work will extend the area of research to include a greater variety of possible flare configurations and include the later phases of flare evolution. To help in this respect support for a graduate research assistant will be provided. Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process in laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasmas. The group funded here has elucidated some of the main features of reconnection thus clarifying some twenty years of work by other researchers.