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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 115, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.025001
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- NSF [CDI-II: CMMI 0941530, AST 1212096]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [0941530] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1212096] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1440415] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In situ spacecraft data on the solar wind show events identified as magnetic reconnection with wide outflows and extended X lines, 10(3)-10(4) times ion scales. To understand the role of turbulence at these scales, we make a case study of an inertial-range reconnection event in a magnetohydrodynamic simulation. We observe stochastic wandering of field lines in space, breakdown of standard magnetic flux freezing due to Richardson dispersion, and a broadened reconnection zone containing many current sheets. The coarse-grain magnetic geometry is like large-scale reconnection in the solar wind, however, with a hyperbolic flux tube or apparent X line extending over integral length scales.
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