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It may now be clear that magnetic reconnection plays a crucial role in large dissipative events in space plasmas. Strong plasma heating just outside the loop top has recently been observed in compact flares and cited as evidence of magnetic reconnection (Masuda et al., 1994); for geomagnetic substorms too, large-scale plasmoids are observed to propagate and believed to result from sudden onset of fast reconnection. Thus, a very essential question may arise concerning how fast reconnection can develop so drastically as to cause solar flares where the magnetic Reynolds number is extremely large.
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Ugai, M., Shimizu, T., Obayashi, T. (1996). Computer Simulations on the Spontaneous Fast Reconnection Mechanism. In: Uchida, Y., Kosugi, T., Hudson, H.S. (eds) Magnetodynamic Phenomena in the Solar Atmosphere. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0315-9_150
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