Particle dynamics in 3-D reconnecting current sheets in the solar atmosphere

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 443, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 663-678

  Efthymiopoulos, C ^a   Gontikakis, C ^a   Anastasiadis, A ^b  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Chaos; Sun: magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CHAOS THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ORBITS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; TOPOLOGY;

ACCELERATION OF PARTICLES; HAMILTONIAN NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RECONNECTING CURRENT SHEET (RCS); SUN: MAGNETIC FIELDS;

CHARGED PARTICLES;

EID: 27844480566     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20042288     Document Type: Article

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