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Quasi-steady high-temperature current sheets are an energy source during the ‘main’ or ‘hot’ phase of solar flares. Such sheets are shown to be stabilized with respect to the tearing instability by a small transverse component of magnetic field existing in the sheets.
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Somov, B.V., Verneta, A.I. Magnetic reconnection in high-temperature plasma of solar flares. Sol Phys 117, 89–95 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00148575
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