Theoretical approaches to the description of magnetic merging: The need for finite βe, anisotropic, ambipolar Hall MHD

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 235-267

  Scudder, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1023/a:1004978021644     Document Type: Article

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