Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009jgra..11407103e&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 114, Issue A7, CiteID A07103
Physics
Plasma Physics
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Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection (2723, 7526), Interplanetary Physics: Discontinuities (7811), Interplanetary Physics: Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Interplanetary Physics: Solar Wind Plasma
Scientific paper
We present observations of the nearly oppositely directed solar wind reconnection jets from the same reconnection X line that swept by the Wind and STEREO-A spacecraft on 11 March 2007. The event was characterized by an external plasma density asymmetry and a jet-aligned shear flow across the exhausts. A well-defined pair of asymmetric current sheets bounded both outflow regions. The observed current sheet asymmetries and differences in the magnitude of the antiparallel magnetic field components within the two exhausts were consistent with the sense of the shear flow and the predictions from two-dimensional MHD simulations of reconnection outflows for the Earth's asymmetric flank magnetopause.
Acuña Mario Humberto
Blush Lisa M.
Eriksson Samantha
Galvin Antoinette B.
Gosling Jack T.
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