Observations of a Quickly Flapping Interplanetary Magnetic Reconnection Exhaust

On the basis of the Petschek reconnection model and the characteristics of reconnection, hundreds of reconnection exhausts were reported in the solar wind. Many multi-spacecraft observations also indicated that interplanetary magnetic reconnection is a quasi–steady-state plasma process and the recon...

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Main Authors: Jiemin Wang, Yan Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2021.736319/full