Abstract
A new class of m=1 magnetic islands is presented. These islands have bounded current-density distributions, so that their resistive evolution is slow. Conservation of the total magnetic flux, however, results in a critical width such that the current density diverges and the separatrix collapses at the X point.
- Received 22 February 1993
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.3259
©1993 American Physical Society
