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Some signatures of magnetic field line reconnection

Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 01/2002; 4678:498-506506. pp.498-506506

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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Keywords

considerable skew
 
coupling mechanism
 
dayside magnetopause
 
ionospheric phenomena
 
magnetic field
 
magnetic field lines
 
magnetospheric context
 
magnetotail
 
Reconnection
 
reconnection couples phenomena
 
Reconnection phenomena
 
reconnection theory
 
signatures