Collisionless reconnection and the sawtooth crash
- 18 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 66 (11) , 1458-1461
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.66.1458
Abstract
A model of the sawtooth crash is presented in which electron inertia combined with anomalous diffusion of the current replace classical resistivity in allowing magnetic reconnection to occur.Keywords
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