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The Diffusion Region in Collisionless Magnetic ReconnectionA review of present understanding of the dissipation region in magnetic reconnection is presented. The review focuses on results of the thermal inertia-based dissipation mechanism but alternative mechanisms are mentioned as well. For the former process, a combination of analytical theory and numerical modeling is presented. Furthermore, a new relation between the electric field expressions for anti-parallel and guide field reconnection is developed.
Document ID
20110007978
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Hesse, Michael (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Neukirch, Thomas (Saint Andrew's Univ. Scotland, United Kingdom)
Schindler, Karl (Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Germany)
Kuznetsova, Masha (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Zenitani, Seiji (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2011
Subject Category
Energy Production And Conversion
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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