Magnetic Reconnection Onset via Disruption of a Forming Current Sheet by the Tearing Instability
The recent realization that Sweet-Parker current sheets are violently unstable to the secondary tearing (plasmoid) instability implies that such current sheets cannot occur in real systems. This suggests that, in order to understand the onset of magnetic reconnection, one needs to consider the growt...
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| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society,
2016-03-11T18:03:12Z.
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