Three-dimensional reconnection at the sun: space observations and collisionless models Original Research Article

The Yohkoh data on the site and mechanism of magnetic energy transformation into kinetic and thermal energies of a superhot plasma at the Sun require new models of reconnection under conditions of highlyanomalous resistivity, which are similar to that one observed in toroidal devices performed to study turbulent heating of a collisionless plasma, and its anomalous heat-conductive cooling. The models make intelligible the observed properties of the three-dimensional reconnection in solar flares.