Five spacecraft observations of oppositely directed exhaust jets from a magnetic reconnection X-line extending > 4.26 × 106 km in the solar wind at 1 AU

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Gosling, Jack T ^a   Eriksson, S ^a   Blush, L M ^b   Phan, T D ^c   Luhmann, J G ^c   McComas, D J ^d   Skoug, R M ^e   Acuna, M H ^f   Russell, C T ^g   Simunac, K D ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); MAGNETOPLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA JETS; SOLAR WIND;

MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; SPACE PLASMA;

GEOPHYSICS;

JET FLOW; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLASMA; SOLAR WIND; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 37349081543     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031492     Document Type: Article

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