Collisionless reconnection: Mechanism of self-ignition in thin current sheets

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.

@article{id1548,
  author = {Treumann, R. A. and Nakamura, R. and Baumjohann, W.},
  journal = {arXiv:1004.3992},
  language = {en},
  note = {8 printed journal pages, prepared for Annales Geophysicae},
  title = {Collisionless reconnection: Mechanism of self-ignition in thin current sheets},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3992},
  year = {2010},
}

%O Journal Article
%A Treumann, R. A.
%A Nakamura, R.
%A Baumjohann, W.
%J arXiv:1004.3992
%G en
%O 8 printed journal pages, prepared for Annales Geophysicae
%T Collisionless reconnection: Mechanism of self-ignition in thin current sheets
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3992
%D 2010