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Fig. 5.

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Upper plot: scheme of coalescent magnetic islands and plasma flow direction. Bottom plot: amplitude of reconnection electric field Ey, c (V m−1 in the colorbar) from Eq. (9) generated in islands. The parameters for Ey, c are k = 0.0325, ϵ = 0.3, d = 2, and E0 = 100 V m−1.

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