Collisionless reconnection: Mechanism of self-ignition in thin current sheets
Space Physics
2011-05-13 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Geophysics
Abstract
The spontaneous onset of magnetic reconnection in thin collisionless current sheets is shown to result from a thermal-anisotropy driven magnetic Weibel-mode, generating seed-magnetic field {\sf X}-points in the centre of the current layer.
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@article{arxiv.1004.3992,
title = {Collisionless reconnection: Mechanism of self-ignition in thin current sheets},
author = {R. A. Treumann and R. Nakamura and W. Baumjohann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.3992},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
8 pages, 6 figures, prepared for Annales Geophysicae