Collisionless reconnection: Mechanism of self-ignition in thin current sheets
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⚛️ physics.space-ph
astro-ph.SRphysics.geo-ph
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currentcollisionlessmagneticreconnectionsheetsthincentredriven
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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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