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A Trigger Mechanism of Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration during Thinning of the Current Sheet

  • Authors: S. Saito and J. I. Sakai

Saito & Sakai 2006 The Astrophysical Journal 652 793.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 7.

Vector plots show the magnetic field ﹩B_{x}﹩ and ﹩B_{y}﹩ normalized by ﹩B_{0}﹩. The gray scale shows the electron density normalized by ﹩n_{0}﹩ at ﹩\omega _{pe}t=250﹩, 750, 1500, and 2000. These are plotted in the region ﹩-2\leq y/ L_{0}\leq 2﹩.

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