http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03449
A long-standing problem in magnetic reconnection is to explain why it tends to proceed at or below a normalized rate of 0.1. This article gives a review of observational and numerical evidence for this rate and discusses recent theoretical work addressing this problem. Some remaining open questions are summarized.
P. Cassak, Y. Liu and M. Shay
Mon, 14 Aug 17
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Comments: 16 pages, 4 figures, the manuscript was prepared for the first Journal of Plasma Physics Frontiers in Plasma Physics Conference, accepted to Journal of Plasma Physics, August 2017