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Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1458–1461 (1991)

Collisionless reconnection and the sawtooth crash

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J. F. Drake and R. G. Kleva
Laboratory for Plasma Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-3511

Received 3 December 1990; published in the issue dated 18 March 1991

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.

© 1991 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.1458
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.1458
PACS:
52.30.-q, 52.35.-g