No evidence for heating of the solar wind at strong current sheets

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 739, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Borovsky, Joseph E ^a,b   Denton, Michael H ^c,d  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Center for Exoplanetary Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

magnetic reconnection; plasmas; solar wind; turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053472690     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/739/2/L61     Document Type: Article

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