A study of the effect of pitch angle and spatial diffusion on tearing instability using a new finite element based linear code

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 103, Issue A3, 1998, Pages 4587-4596

  Brittnacher, M ^a   Quest, K B ^a   Karimabadi, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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