Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006georl..3319102d&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 19, CiteID L19102
Physics
Plasma Physics
18
Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection (2723, 7526), Interplanetary Physics: Solar Wind Plasma, Space Plasma Physics: Particle Acceleration
Scientific paper
We report the first two-spacecraft (Wind and ACE) detection of oppositely directed plasma jets within a bifurcated current sheet in the solar wind. The event occurred on January 3, 2003 and provides further direct evidence that such jets result from reconnection. The magnetic shear across the bifurcated current sheet at both Wind and ACE was ~150°, indicating that the magnetic shear must have been the same at the reconnection site located between the two spacecraft. These observations thus provide strong evidence for component merging with a guide field ~ 30% of the antiparallel field. The dimensionless reconnection rate based on the measured inflow was 0.03, implying fast reconnection.
Davis Stacey M.
Gosling Jack T.
Phan Tai-Duc
Skoug Ruth M.
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