Onset of collisionless magnetic reconnection in thin current sheets: Three-dimensional particle simulations

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 3521-3527

  Scholer, M ^a   Sidorenko, I ^a   Jaroschek, C H ^a   Treumann, R A ^a   Zeiler, A ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX;

MAGNETIC RECONNECTION;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 0141742422     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1597494     Document Type: Article

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