Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006georl..3317102g&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 17, CiteID L17102
Physics
Plasma Physics
19
Interplanetary Physics: Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Interplanetary Physics: Solar Wind Plasma, Space Plasma Physics: Electrostatic Structures, Space Plasma Physics: Mathematical And Numerical Techniques (0500, 3200)
Scientific paper
We have identified a sunward-directed reconnection exhaust in the solar wind at a crossing of the heliospheric current sheet, HCS, by the ACE spacecraft. The exhaust was embedded within an interval of counterstreaming suprathermal electron strahls that provides direct evidence that reconnection produced closed (i.e., doubly connected to the Sun) magnetic field lines sunward of the reconnection site. We suggest that local, quasi-stationary reconnection at the HCS may, in general, be an important source of closed magnetic field lines often observed in the vicinity of the HCS.
Gosling Jack T.
McComas David John
Skoug Ruth M.
Smith Walter C.
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