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Turbulent impulsive magnetic energy release from electron scale reconnection

Horton, W.; Kim, J. -H.; Militello, F. +1 more

Magnetic reconnection may occur as bursts of nonlinear plasma dynamics on the electron collisionless skin length scale d_e=c/ω_{pe, during which a large fraction of the magnetic energy is converted to plasma thermal energy and plasma flow energy. An example of such a bursty energy release event is given with a simple set of…}