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The Role of Reconnection in the Formation of Flux Ropes in the Solar Wind
DOI: 10.1029/GM111p0205 Bibcode: 1999GMS...111..205G

Gosling, J. T.

New magnetic loops formed in the corona beneath coronal mass ejections, CMEs, provide strong evidence that magnetic reconnection commonly occurs within the magnetic `legs' of the departing CMEs. Such reconnection is inherently 3-dimensional and produces a magnetic flux rope structure within a CME. Depending upon how far reconnection proceeds, the …

1999 Geophysical Monograph Series
Ulysses 4