Direct evidence for magnetic reconnection in the solar wind near 1 AU

By J. Gosling, R. Skoug, David John McComas, Charles W. Smith. 2004

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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• Impulsive Phase Flare Energy Transport by Large-Scale Alfvén Waves and the Electron Acceleration Problem (2007, background): “Indeed, in situ observations of reconnection in the solar wind (Gosling et al. 2005) show Alfvén waves propagating along just-reconnected field lines, and the MHD simulations of Linton& Longcope (2006) demonstrate a postreconnection state of initially untwisted flux tubes in which field-line kinks…”
• STEREO IMPACT Investigation Goals, Measurements, and Data Products Overview (2008, unknown): “…flux dropouts would be expected and are observed during disconnection events that occur well away from the Sun at the heliospheric current sheet (Gosling et al. 2005b), but these do not appear to be present in equal numbers with counterstreaming electron intervals (indicators of closed field…”
• Multispacecraft observation of magnetic cloud erosion by magnetic reconnection during propagation (2012, background): “By contrast, a spacecraft crossing the exhaust anti-Sunward of the reconnection line observes a lack of strahl electrons in both the parallel and anti-parallel directions [Gosling et al., 2005b].”
• The Physical Processes of CME/ICME Evolution (2017, background): “Magnetic reconnection is ubiquitous in the solar wind, from large-scale structures such as the heliospheric current sheet (e.g., Gosling et al. 2005, 2006) to the smallest scale associated with magnetic turbulence.”
• Ion heating resulting from pickup in magnetic reconnection exhausts (2009, methodology): “…observation in the solar wind reconnection events is the apparent absence of evidence for the production of very energetic electrons or ions [Gosling et al., 2005a] even though the spatial extent of solar wind reconnection exhausts can exceed 2 106 km, which is comparable or larger in scale…”