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The tearing instability can play a significant role in reconnecting current layers, but it is well stabilized in many cases of interest. For this reason, quasi-stationary current layers can exist for a long time in astrophysical plasma, for example in the solar corona, in the Earth magnetospheric tail.
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(2006). Tearing Instability of Reconnecting Current Layers. In: Plasma Astrophysics. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 341. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68894-7_33
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