Onset of fast magnetic reconnection

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 21, 2007, Pages

  Cassak, P A ^a,b   Drake, J F ^a   Shay, M A ^b   Eckhardt, B ^c,d  

^a The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; TOPOLOGY;

HALL RECONNECTION; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 34547356727     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.215001     Document Type: Article

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