DO potential fields develop current sheets under simple compression or expansion?

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 699, Issue 2 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Huang, Yi Min ^a,c,d   Bhattacharjee, A ^a,c,d   Zweibel, Ellen G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Center for Integrated Computation and Analysis of Reconnection and Turbulence   (United States)

^d Center for Magnetic Self Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas   (United States)

Author keywords

MHD; Sun: corona; Sun: magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950656912     PISSN: 2041-820     EISSN: 2041-821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/699/2/L144     Document Type: Article

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