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Universal Scaling of Thin Current Sheets
Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 Thin current sheets (TCSs) with thicknesses about ion Larmor radii are widespread in space. It is important to describe their equilibrium structure allowing them to store and then explosively release the accumulated free energy.
L. M. Zelenyi +4 more
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Thin current sheets with strong bell-shape guide field: Cluster observations and models with beams [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2014 We study the kinetic structure of intense ion-scale current sheets with strong electron currents and the guide field having a bell-shape profile. We consider four crossings of the Earth magnetotail current sheet by the Cluster mission in 2003.
I. Y. Vasko +3 more
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Origin of multifractality in solar wind turbulence: the role of current sheets [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022 In this work, a multifractal framework is proposed to investigate the effects of current sheets in solar wind turbulence. By using multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis coupled with surrogate methods and volatility, two solar wind magnetic field ...
L. F. Gomes +3 more
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Current Sheets, Plasmoids and Flux Ropes in the Heliosphere [PDF]
Space Science Reviews, 2021 Our understanding of processes occurring in the heliosphere historically began with reduced dimensionality - one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) sketches and models, which aimed to illustrate views on large-scale structures in the solar wind ...
O. Khabarova +15 more
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Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 To obtain measurements that will address some outstanding questions about the properties and origin of the magnetic and plasma structure of the heliosphere a simple single-spacecraft mission at one AU is outlined.
Joseph E. Borovsky, Jim M. Raines
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Solar-Wind Structures That Are Not Destroyed by the Action of Solar-Wind Turbulence
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 If MHD turbulence is a dominant process acting in the solar wind between the Sun and 1 AU, then the destruction and regeneration of structure in the solar-wind plasma is expected.
Joseph E. Borovsky
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Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021 We present a data set and properties of 18,785 proton kinetic-scale current sheets collected over 124 days in the solar wind using magnetic field measurements at 1/11 s resolution aboard the Wind spacecraft.
I. Vasko +5 more
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Electron‐Only Tail Current Sheets and Their Temporal Evolution
Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 The Earth's magnetotail contains a current sheet separating the anti‐Sunward field of the southern lobe from the sunward‐pointing northern lobe. Herein, we report tail current sheets that are supported only by electron currents.
M. Hubbert +5 more
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How Turbulent is the Magnetically Closed Corona?
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 We argue that the magnetically closed corona evolves primarily quasi-statically, punctuated by many localized bursts of activity associated with magnetic reconnection at a myriad of small current sheets.
James A. Klimchuk, Spiro K. Antiochos
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