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A review of present understanding of the dissipation region in magnetic reconnection is presented. The review focuses on results of the thermal inertia-based dissipation mechanism but alternative mechanisms are mentioned as well. For the former process, a combination of analytical theory and numerical modeling is presented. Furthermore, a new relation between the electric field expressions for anti-parallel and guide field reconnection is developed.
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Hesse, M., Neukirch, T., Schindler, K. et al. The Diffusion Region in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection. Space Sci Rev 160, 3–23 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-010-9740-1
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