@Article{WangWaLuLiLuGo:2023:DiObTu,
               author = "Wang, Rongsheng and Wang, Shimou and Lu, Quanming and Li, Xinmin 
                         and Lu, San and Gonzalez Alarcon, Walter Dem{\'e}trio",
          affiliation = "{University of Science and Technology of China} and {University of 
                         Science and Technology of China} and {University of Science and 
                         Technology of China} and {University of Science and Technology of 
                         China} and {University of Science and Technology of China} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Direct observation of turbulent magnetic reconnection in the solar 
                         wind",
              journal = "Nature Astronomy",
                 year = "2023",
               volume = "7",
               number = "1",
                pages = "18--28",
                month = "Jan.",
             abstract = "Magnetic reconnection in a current sheet is commonly found in 
                         astrophysical plasma environments. If it is often bursty, 
                         releasing magnetic free energy explosively, in planetary 
                         magnetospheres, it instead displays a quasi-steady state in the 
                         solar wind, where the energy is dissipated via slow-mode shocks. 
                         The reason for this difference is elusive. Here we present a 
                         direct observation of bursty and turbulent magnetic reconnection 
                         in the solar wind, with its associated exhausts bounded by a pair 
                         of slow-mode shocks. We infer that the plasma is more efficiently 
                         heated in the magnetic reconnection diffusion region than across 
                         the shocks and that the flow enhancement is much higher in the 
                         exhausts than in the area around the diffusion region. We detected 
                         75 other, similar diffusion-region events in solar wind data 
                         between October 2017 and May 2019, suggesting that bursty 
                         reconnection in the solar wind is more common than previously 
                         thought and actively contributes to solar wind acceleration and 
                         heating.",
                  doi = "10.1038/s41550-022-01818-5",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01818-5",
                 issn = "2397-3366",
             language = "en",
        urlaccessdate = "11 maio 2024"
}