Collisionless reconnection: Mechanism of self-ignition in thin plane homogeneous current sheets

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1935-1943

  Treumann, R A ^a,b,d   Nakamura, R ^c   Baumjohann, W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^d INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (Storms and substorms); Space plasma physics (Magnetic reconnection)

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA; STORM;

EID: 78049291937     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-28-1935-2010     Document Type: Article

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