Fast magnetic reconnection and spontaneous stochasticity

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 743, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Eyink, Gregory L ^a   Lazarian, A ^b   Vishniac, E T ^c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

magnetic reconnection; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 82255189666     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/51     Document Type: Article

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