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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 467-470Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012232
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We recover two-dimensional magnetic structures of small-scale flux ropes in the solar wind from WIND spacecraft data by solving the plane Grad-Shafranov equation as a spatial initial Value problem. The cross-sections of two recovered flux ropes show nested non-circular loops of transverse held lines rather than concentric circles. The expected helical structure is recovered, albeit with significant distortions from axial symmetry. The rope structures are self-consistent, non-force free, magnetohydrostatic equilibria. Their orientations are determined by a novel technique.
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