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Magnetic Cloud Boundary Layers and Magnetic Reconnection

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Space physics studies various physical processes that exist in different regions including the middle and high layer atmosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, interplanetary space, the Sun, and the entire heliosphere.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Note The reconnection accelerated electrons with high energy (usually greater than 1 keV) are also called nonthermal electron or suprathermal electron by some authors. However, 100–700 eV electrons in the solar wind, which is often used to diagnose the magnetic field, are also called suprathermal electron. Here we use energetic electron to denote the reconnection accelerated electron with high energy (usually greater than 1 keV).

  2. 2.

    Note The electron flux spectrum usually obeys a power law at high-energy range. The relation between the phase space density and energy can be descripted by f ~ E −k. A smaller power index k means a harder spectrum.

  3. 3.

    Note These reconnection jets could be described by the ‘Walen’ relation which would be discussed in Chaps. 2 and 5.

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