title: Driven reconnection about a magnetic X-line with strong guide component.
abstract: A two-dimensional, two-fluid model is used to investigate driven magnetic reconnection in collisionless or semicollisional plasmas. The reconnection is driven by externally induced plasma flows in a background magnetic configuration that has a hyperbolic null component in the reconnection plane and a strong component, the so-called guide component, perpendicular to that plane. A dynamic solution is obtained in which the reconnection proceeds in two phases: an initial one whose characteristic rate is a fraction of the Alfvén frequency, and a later one whose rate is determined by the electron collision frequency.
authors.affiliation: Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Ramos
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Porcelli
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Verástegui