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Drake & Burkhart 1992
Drake, J.F. and Burkhart, G.R. (1992). Magnetic blowout during collisionless reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters 19: doi: 10.1029/92GL01034. issn: 0094-8276.

Simulations and analytic calculations of the steady-state structure of the dissipation region during collisionless reconnection are presented. Ions are treated as particles and electrons as a dissipative fluid. The mechanism for electron/ion momentum coupling during collisionless reconnection is elucidated. A limiting reconnection rate results as the ions ''blowout'' the magnetic field in the dissipation region. The implications for understanding substorm dynamics are discussed.

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Keywords
Space Plasma Physics, Magnetic reconnection, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetotail boundary layers
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Geophysical Research Letters
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