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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
Volume 118, Issue 2, Pages 591-599Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/jgra.50102
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- STEREO/IMPACT phase E grant
- STEREO/WAVES phase E grant
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1102527] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A strong spatial association between bipolar electrostatic solitary waves (ESWs) and magnetic current sheets (CSs) in the solar wind is reported here for the first time. This association requires that the plasma instabilities (e. g., Buneman, electron two stream) which generate ESWs are preferentially localized to solar wind CSs. Distributions of CS properties (including shear angle, thickness, solar wind speed, and vector magnetic field change) are examined for differences between CSs associated with ESWs and randomly chosen CSs. Possible mechanisms for producing ESW-generating instabilities at solar wind CSs are considered, including magnetic reconnection. Citation: Malaspina, D. M., D. L. Newman, L. B. Willson III, K. Goetz, P. J. Kellogg, and K. Kerstin (2013), Electrostatic Solitary Waves in the Solar Wind: Evidence for Instability at Solar Wind Current Sheets, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 118, 591-599, doi:10.1002/jgra.50102.
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