Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: Sausage mode instability of thin current sheet as a cause of magnetospheric substorms. Annales Geophysicae 17 (5), pp. 604 - 612 (1999)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J. P.: Consequences of strong ion acceleration in current sheets and due to reconnection. Advances in Space Research 21 (4), pp. 567 - 572 (1998)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: Numerical simulation of three-dimensional reconnection due to the instability of collisionless current sheets. Advances in Space Research 19, pp. 1817 - 1822 (1997)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: Formation of cup-like ion beam distributions in the plasma sheet bounary layer. J. Geomag. Geoelectr. 48, pp. 781 - 797 (1996)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: Computer simulation of the three-dimensional decay of thin collisionless current sheets. In: Magnetospheric Research with Advanced Techniques, Proceedings of the 9th COSPAR Colloquium, pp. 179 - 187 (Eds. Xu, R. L.; Lui, A. T. Y.). Elsevier Science, Amsterdam (1998)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.; Nikutowski, B.; Wiechen, H.; Rustenbach, J.; Auster, U.; Fornacon, K. H.; Klimov, S.; Petrukovich, A.; Savin, S.: Three-dimensional reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail: simulations and observations. In: Geospace Mass an Energy Flow: Results from the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Program, pp. 313 - 326 (Eds. Horwitz, J. L.; Galagher, D. L.; Peterson, W. K.). American Geophysical Union, Washington D. C. (1998)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.; Wilken, B.; Zong, Q.-G.: Heavy Ion Acceleration by Reconnection in the Magnetotail: Theory and Geotail Observations. In: Physics of the Magnetotail, pp. 181 - 192 (Eds. Nishida, A.; Cowley, S. W. H.; Baker, D.). American Geophysical Union, Washington D. C. (1998)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: 3D collisionless reconnection through thin current sheets - Theory and self-consistent simulations. In: Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Substorms (ICS-3), Versailles, France 1996, (ESA SP-389). ESA Publ. Div.,, Noordwijk (1996)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: Newly developed 3D PIC code and its application to reconnection. In: Proc. Fifth Int. School/Symp. for Space Simulations (ISSS-5), pp. 186 - 189. Kyoto University, Kyoto (1997)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: New results about the cause of sudden magnetic detachments by three-dimensional spontaneous magnetic reconnection. In: Proc. 31st ESLAB Symp. ``Correlated Phenomena at the Sun, in the Heliosphere and in Geospace'', ESTEC, pp. 131 - 138 (Ed. Wilson, A.). ESA Publ. Div., Noordwijk (1997)
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