Three-dimensional collisionless reconnection through thin current sheets theory and self-consistent simulations

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 389, 1996, Pages 373-380

  Buchner J ^a   Kuska, J P ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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