Reconstruction of magnetic flux ropes in the solar wind

Details Reconstruction of magnetic flux ropes in the solar wind Reconstruction of magnetic flux ropes in the solar wind

Feb 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28..467h&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 467-470

Physics

Plasma Physics

48

Interplanetary Physics, Interplanetary Physics: Ejecta, Driver Gases, And Magnetic Clouds, Interplanetary Physics: Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Space Plasma Physics

Scientific paper

We recover two-dimensional magnetic structures of small-scale flux ropes in the solar wind from WIND space-craft data by solving the plane Grad-Shafranov equation as a spatial initial value problem. The cross-sections of two recovered flux ropes show nested non-circular loops of transverse field lines rather than concentric circles. The expected helical structure is recovered, albeit with significant distortions from axial symmetry. The rope structures are self-consistent, non-force free, magnetohydrostatic equilibria. Their orientations are determined by a novel technique.

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