Relativistic unsteady Petschek-type model of magnetic reconnection

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1538-1542

  Tolstykh, Yu V ^a   Semenov, V S ^a   Biernat, H K ^b,c   Heyn, M F ^d   Penz, T ^b,c  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Magnetic reconnection; Relativistic MHD; Slow shock

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LORENTZ FORCE; VECTORS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; RELATIVISTIC MHD; SLOW SHOCK; ULTRARELATIVISTIC VELOCITIES;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 35248824627     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.01.013     Document Type: Article

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