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| Titel |
Observations of patchy reconnection signatures in the solar wind |
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Jakub Enzl, Lubomir Prech, Jana Safrankova, Zdenek Nemecek |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2016
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
| Datensatznummer |
250124518
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-3964.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Magnetic reconnection is an important process that changes a magnetic field configuration
and converts a magnetic energy to the flow energy and plasma heating. Reconnection events
were documented in the magnetosphere as well as in the solar wind at 1 AU. In the set of
485 observed exhausts in the solar wind, we identified a portion of the exhausts
accompanied by side jets that are oriented in the same direction as the main exhaust
jet but they are spatially separated from it. These side jets can be a signature of
patchy magnetic reconnection. We suppose that a source of such side jets is probably
multiple reconnection occurring in the vicinity of the main X-line. This structure
could give us an additional information about the X-line length which is otherwise
hard to estimate. The paper presents characteristics of side jets and their properties. |
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