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Magnetic reconnection in the heliosphere: new insights from observations in the solar wind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2008

J. T. Gosling
J. T. Gosling*
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado1234 Innovation Drive, Boulder Colorado, USA80303 email: jack.gosling@lasp.colorado.edu
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Abstract

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Magnetic reconnection plays a central role in the interpretation of a wide variety of observed solar, space, astrophysical, and laboratory plasma phenomena. The relatively recent discovery that reconnection is common at thin current sheets in the solar wind opens up a new laboratory for studying this fundamental plasma process and its after-effects. Here we provide a brief overview of some of the new insights on reconnection derived from observations of reconnection exhaust jets in the solar wind.

Keywords

Magnetic reconnectionsolar windexhaust jetsplasmasmagnetic fields

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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S257: Universal Heliophysical Processes , September 2008 , pp. 367 - 377
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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