Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3415110g&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 15, CiteID L15110
Physics
Plasma Physics
21
Interplanetary Physics: Cosmic Rays, Interplanetary Physics: Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Interplanetary Physics: Solar Wind Plasma, Space Plasma Physics: Discontinuities (2109), Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection (2723, 7526)
Scientific paper
A study of magnetic reconnection exhausts observed at high (3-s) temporal resolution by the plasma and magnetic field experiments on Wind during March 2006 reveals, unexpectedly, that reconnection in the solar wind occurs most frequently at field shear angles <90°. Owing largely to the relatively low reconnection rates associated with small field shear angles, the corresponding exhausts tend to be quite narrow (<4 × 104 km) and typically are convected past the spacecraft by the solar wind flow in <100 s. During March 2006 Wind encountered reconnection exhausts at an average rate of ~1.5 events/day, a factor of ~36 greater than has been inferred from previous observations, largely made at considerably lower (~1-min) temporal resolution.
Gosling Jack T.
Lin Robert P.
Phan Tai-Duc
Szabo Andras
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