A model for spontaneous onset of fast magnetic reconnection

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 644, Issue 2, 2006, Pages L145-L148

  Cassak, P A ^a   Drake, J F ^a   Shay, M A ^b  

^a The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic fields; Plasmas; Sun: corona; Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs); Sun: flares

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964773354     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505690     Document Type: Article

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