Some signatures of magnetic field line reconnection

Helfried K. Biernat; Vladimir S. Semenov; Nikolai V. Erkaev; Rumi Nakamura; Wolfgang Baumjohann; Stefan Muehlbachler; Charles J. Farrugia; Dieter F. Vogl; Richard P. Rijnbeek

doi:10.1117/12.458482

28 February 2002 Some signatures of magnetic field line reconnection

Helfried K. Biernat, Vladimir S. Semenov, Nikolai V. Erkaev, Rumi Nakamura, Wolfgang Baumjohann, Stefan Muehlbachler, Charles J. Farrugia, Dieter F. Vogl, Richard P. Rijnbeek

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Proceedings Volume 4678, Eighth International Symposium on Atmospheric and Ocean Optics: Atmospheric Physics; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458482
Event: Eighth Joint International Symposium on Atmospheric and Ocean Optics: Atmospheric Physics, 2001, Irkutsk, Russian Federation

Abstract

Reconnection of magnetic field lines is a very important coupling mechanism in space for configurations with considerable skew in the magnetic field. In a magnetospheric context such configurations occur at the dayside magnetopause and in the magnetotail. Thus, reconnection couples phenomena prevailing in the solar wind with ionospheric phenomena. We report on the most important signatures of reconnection. Recent developments of reconnection theory are presented. Reconnection phenomena in the tail are briefly discussed.

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Helfried K. Biernat, Vladimir S. Semenov, Nikolai V. Erkaev, Rumi Nakamura, Wolfgang Baumjohann, Stefan Muehlbachler, Charles J. Farrugia, Dieter F. Vogl, and Richard P. Rijnbeek "Some signatures of magnetic field line reconnection", Proc. SPIE 4678, Eighth International Symposium on Atmospheric and Ocean Optics: Atmospheric Physics, (28 February 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458482

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