Poster abstract details

Magnetic reconnection plays an important role in space physics, for example, in Earth's magnetosphere, on the Sun, in the magnetospheres of magnetars, pulsars, black holes, etc. The process starts with an abrupt drop of plasma conductivity in a local part of the current sheet. This leads to a decay of the current sheet into a system of large-amplitude relativistic MHD waves which bounded the two jets with accelerated nearly to the speed of lights plasma in details. The energy balance of relativistic reconnection is investigated. It is shown that magnetic and thermal energy from the inflow region is spent for acceleration and heating of the plasma in jets. It is interesting that the temperature of the plasma in the wake of the propagating outflow regions drops after each pulse of reconnection. This differ from usual explosion which heats the plasma behind the shock front.