Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmsm51c1822a&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SM51C-1822
Physics
Plasma Physics
[2723] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetic Reconnection, [2728] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetosheath, [7835] Space Plasma Physics / Magnetic Reconnection, [7863] Space Plasma Physics / Turbulence
Scientific paper
In the turbulent Terrestrial magnetosheath downstream of the quasi-parallel bowshock thin current sheets are formed. Previous detailed studies of one of these sheets indicated that magnetic reconnection can occur within this turbulence. We present a first statistical study of reconnection in turbulent plasma. The electric and magnetic signatures are consistent with ongoing reconnection in several of the 70 investigated current sheets. The reconnection rate can be higher than for large-scale reconnection. The typical coherent dissipation (j●E) associated with a reconnecting current sheet is estimated. The associated global dissipation rate may be much higher than expected from collisionless damping of waves at ion inertial length scales.
André Martial
Khotyaintsev Yu. V.
Lucek Elisabeth A.
Retinò Alessandro
Stenberg Gabriella
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