The diffusion region in collisionless magnetic reconnection

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 160, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 3-23

  Hesse, Michael ^a   Neukirch, Thomas ^b   Schindler, Karl ^c   Kuznetsova, Masha ^a   Zenitani, Seiji ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic reconnection; Magnetospheric physics; Numerical simulations; Solar physics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL THEORY; COLLISIONLESS; DIFFUSION REGION; DISSIPATION MECHANISM; FORMER PROCESS; GUIDE FIELD; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; SOLAR PHYSICS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE;

ENERGY DISSIPATION;

EID: 80053986620     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-010-9740-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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