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A magnetic reconnection X-line extending more than 390 Earth radii in the solar wind

Balogh, A.; McComas, D. J.; Reme, H. +8 more

Magnetic reconnection in a current sheet converts magnetic energy into particle energy, a process that is important in many laboratory, space and astrophysical contexts. It is not known at present whether reconnection is fundamentally a process that can occur over an extended region in space or whether it is patchy and unpredictable in nature. Fre…

Space Physics: Breaking through the lines

Paschmann, Götz

Magnetic field lines are known to reorganize themselves in plasmas, converting magnetic to particle energy. Evidence harvested from the solar wind implies that the scale of the effect is larger than was thought.