Electron dynamics in collisionless magnetic reconnection

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1174-1181

  Lu, QuanMing ^a   Wang, RongSheng ^b   Xie, JinLin ^a   Huang, Can ^a   Lu, San ^a   Wang, Shui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

electron acceleration; magnetic reconnection; reconnection electric field; secondary island

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955149195     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4440-0     Document Type: Review

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