M. S. Davis

TL;DR: Three-spacecraft observations of accelerated flow associated with reconnection in a current sheet embedded in the solar wind flow imply that reconnection is fundamentally a large-scale process and reveal, surprisingly, that reconnections can operate in a quasi-steady-state manner even when undriven by the external flow.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the first observational evidence for the dependence of the occurrence of reconnection on a combination of the magnetic field shear angle, θ, across the current sheet and the difference in the plasma β values on the two sides, Δβ.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of wind and ACE data has been performed to address the generality of previous reports of extremely extended reconnection X-lines in the solar wind, and it has been shown that reconnection lines in large-scale current sheets are fundamentally extended, and not patchy and randomly distributed in space.

TL;DR: The first two-spacecraft (Wind and ACE) detection of oppositely directed plasma jets within a bifurcated current sheet in the solar wind was reported in this article.

TL;DR: The first two-spacecraft (Wind and ACE) detection of oppositely directed plasma jets within a bifurcated current sheet in the solar wind was reported in this paper.