Numerical examination of the stability of an exact two-dimensional solution for flux pile-up magnetic reconnection

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 610, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 1107-1116

  Hirose, Shigenobu ^a   Litvinenko, Yuri E ^b   Tanuma, Syuniti ^c   Shibata, Kazunari ^c   Takahashi, Masaaki ^d   Tanigawa, Takayuki ^e   Sasaqui, Takahiro ^f   Noro, Ayato ^g   Uehara, Kazuhiro ^c   Takahashi, Kunio ^h   Taniguchi, Takashi ⁱ   Terekhova, Yuliya A ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Instabilities; MHD; Plasmas; Sun: flares

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043096336     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/421894     Document Type: Article

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