Collisionless tearing instability in magnetotail plasmas
- 20 September 1990
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Journal of Geophysical Research
- Vol. 95 (A9) , 15047-15057
- https://doi.org/10.1029/ja095ia09p15047
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