Voyager II Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in the Inner and Middle Heliosphere

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Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufmsh44a1709s&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SH44A-1709

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2134 Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, 2164 Solar Wind Plasma, 7811 Discontinuities (2109), 7835 Magnetic Reconnection (2723, 7526)

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We use archival Voyager II data, primarily from the interplanetary cruise, to study signatures of magnetic reconnection in the solar wind well beyond 1 AU. Our search algorithm has identified 141 unique instances of pressure-balanced magnetic depressions that are (1) bounded by a pair of antisymmetric rotational discontinuities, and (2) accompanied by an Alfvénic or near-Alfvénic jet in the plane of rotation, as in the traversal of a Petchek-type reconnection exhaust. We present global statistics of these signatures from 1 AU out to 45 AU, and a study of the particle distribution functions of selected events.

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