Triggering fast magnetic reconnection in the presence of current sheets with a non-zero normal component.


Fulvia Pucci, NIFS National Institute for Fusion Science, Gifu, Japan; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Marco C M Velli, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Anna Tenerani, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Chen Shi, Auburn University, Department of Physics, Auburn, United States