New Evidence on the Origin of Solar Wind Microstreams/Switchbacks
Microstreams are fluctuations in the solar wind speed and density associated with polarity-reversing folds in the magnetic field (also denoted switchbacks). Despite their long heritage, the origin of these microstreams/switchbacks remains poorly understood. For the first time, we investigated periodicities in microstreams during Parker Solar Probe (PSP) Encounter 10 to understand their origin. Our analysis was focused on the inbound corotation interval on 2021 November 19-21, while the spacecraft dove toward a small area wit ...
Kumar, Pankaj; Karpen, Judith; Uritsky, Vadim; Deforest, Craig; Raouafi, Nour; DeVore, Richard; Antiochos, Spiro;
Published by: \apjl Published on: jul
YEAR: 2023   DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acd54e
Parker Data Used; Fast solar wind; Plasma jets; Solar magnetic reconnection; 1872; 1263; 1504; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Physics - Space Physics
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