Impulsive reconnection dynamics in collisionless laboratory and space plasmas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A7, 1999, Pages 14543-14556

  Bhattacharjee, A ^a   Ma, Z W ^a   Wang, Xiaogang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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