A route to explosive large-scale magnetic reconnection in a super-ion-scale current sheet

How to trigger magnetic reconnection is one of the most interesting and important problems in space plasma physics. Recently, electron temperature anisotropy (&alpha;<I><sub>eo</sub></I>=<I>T<sub>e&#x22A5;</sub>/T<sub>e||</sub></I>...

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Main Authors: K. G. Tanaka, K. Haijima, M. Fujimoto, I. Shinohara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-01-01
Series:Annales Geophysicae
Online Access:https://www.ann-geophys.net/27/395/2009/angeo-27-395-2009.pdf