| name | prasad-2023-3d-reconnection-turbulent-plasmas |
| description | Per-entry paper-skill in wave500_coronal_source_mapping_pfss_045 (HelioSI 501-corpus). See body and metadata.yaml for paper identity and claim boundary. |
prasad-2023-3d-reconnection-turbulent-plasmas
Runtime-neutral paper-skill. Layered: (1) scientific invariants, (2) executable protocol against abstract capabilities, (3) adapter notes (optional examples only), (4) research-generation affordances.
Trigger
Reach for this skill when identifying 3-D reconnection sites in turbulent coronal-MHD or PIC data, with PFSS / NLFFF establishing the large-scale topological context.
Layer 1 — Scientific invariant
Paper identity
- Title: A Method for Determining the Locations and Configurations of Magnetic Reconnection within 3-D Turbulent Plasmas
- First author: A. Prasad
- Authors: A. Prasad, TODO_verify
- Year: 2023
- arXiv: 2312.15589 (posted 2023-12-25)
- Journal: TODO_verify_with_full_text
- DOI: TODO_verify_with_full_text
Claim (narrow form)
A topology-based diagnostic locates 3-D reconnection sites in turbulent coronal plasmas with a recall rate matching ground-truth flux-rope and separator configurations.
Method assumptions
- Topology diagnostic is robust to noise.
- Ground-truth reconnection events are independently labelled.
Data assumptions
- MHD or PIC turbulent simulation data.
- PFSS or NLFFF large-scale context.
Failure modes (skill memory)
- Numerical noise leads to spurious nulls.
- Ground-truth labelling is incomplete.
Figure / numerical targets
- Recall-vs-precision curve.
- Reconnection-site map.
Claim boundary
In scope. The simulated configurations.
Out of scope — do NOT generalize:
- Do NOT cite recall outside the labelled regime.
Layer 2 — Executable protocol (capability-typed)
Required capabilities (abstract)
| Capability | Purpose | Notes |
|---|
mhd.turbulence_run() | turbulent MHD/PIC | |
topology.reconnection_diagnostic() | diagnostic | |
pfss.solve() | context | |
Procedure
- Run turbulent simulation.
- Apply topology diagnostic.
- Score against labelled ground-truth.
- Compare with PFSS context.
Validation target
Recall-vs-precision curve.
Layer 3 — Adapter / runtime notes (optional examples)
- Simulation codes paper-specific; sunkit-magex.pfss for context.
Layer 4 — Research-generation affordances
- Compose with [[brennan-2024-tracing-reconnecting-expanding-field-lines]] for a unified reconnection-vs-expansion classification framework.
- Generative hypothesis: turbulent-reconnection-site density predicts switchback occurrence at footpoints ([[raouafi-2025-switchback-coronal-jet-precursors]]).
Skill graph → depends_on
- [[brennan-2024-tracing-reconnecting-expanding-field-lines]]
Links
TODOs for full-text verification
- DOI
- labelling protocol
- simulation code