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Recent in‐situ observations of magnetic reconnection in near‐Earth space
Author(s) -
Paschmann Götz
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2008gl035297
Subject(s) - magnetic reconnection , physics , particle acceleration , diffusion , space physics , space (punctuation) , geophysics , acceleration , plasma , classical mechanics , linguistics , philosophy , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics
The paper presents a brief review of recent in‐situ observations of reconnection in space, with emphasis on results pertaining to the question of anti‐parallel versus component reconnection, the implied spatial and temporal scales, the location of the reconnection sites, particle acceleration, reconnection rates, the dependence on plasma β , and the properties of the diffusion region.