Reconnection and Disconnection: Observations of Suprathermal Electron Heat Flux Dropouts

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Mar 2010

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TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL SOLAR WIND CONFERENCE. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1216, pp. 600-603 (2010).

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Solar Wind, Solar Activity, Magnetic Field Effects, Corona, Particle Emission, Solar Wind, Solar Activity, Electric And Magnetic Fields, Solar Magnetism, Corona

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Suprathermal electron heat flux dropouts (HFD) serve as a sensitive test of the magnetic topology of the inner heliosphere. Since the heat flux electron strahl always flows away from the Sun, a heat flux dropout should indicate either that the magnetic field line is completely disconnected from the Sun or that the heat flux strahl is scattered into other pitch angles. We present observations of two suprathermal electron heat flux dropout events observed by the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft which occur simultaneously with impulsive energetic ion events. Since suprathermal electrons encompass the same velocity range as ions with energies of a few MeV/nucleon, the similarities and differences between them as observed at 1 AU probes the sources and transport of these two species. We compare the two events to show the difference between the signatures of a simple disconnection and a more complicated reconnection scenario. Comparing suprathermal electron modulations with energetic ion modulations is a powerful technique for determining the magnetic topology between particle injection at the Sun and observation at 1 AU.

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