The diffusion region in collisionless magnetic reconnection

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1781-1795

  Hesse, Michael ^a   Schindler, Karl ^b   Birn, Joachim ^c   Kuznetsova, Masha ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 33749939869     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: 10897674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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