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Current filaments in turbulent magnetized plasmas

Sundkvist, D.; Martines, E.; Vianello, N. +18 more

Direct measurements of current density perturbations associated with non-linear phenomena in magnetized plasmas can be carried out using in situ magnetic measurements. In this paper we report such measurements for three different kinds of phenomena. Current density fluctuations in the edge density gradient region of a fusion plasma confined in rev…

Magnetic reconnection in space plasma

Retinò, Alessandro; Vaivads, Andris; André, Mats

The terrestrial magnetosphere is a natural laboratory where many important plasma processes can be studied in detail by using high-quality spacecraft measurements of electromagnetic fields and particle distribution functions over a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. One such important process is magnetic reconnection. We discuss recent re…