Thin current sheets and the associated wave activity observed by Solar Orbiter
- 1Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden (dgraham@irfu.se)
- 2KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- 3LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité
- 4LPP, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay, PSL Research University, Palaiseau, Paris, France
- 5LPC2E, CNRS, 3A avenue de la Recherche Scientifique, Orléans, France
- *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract
Thin current sheets are routinely observed in the solar wind. Here we report observations of thin current sheets and the associated plasma waves using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument provides high-resolution measurements of the electric field, number density perturbations, and magnetic field fluctuations, which we use to identify and characterise the observed waves, while the magnetic field provided by the MAG instrument is used to characterise the current sheets. We discuss the role of current sheets in the generation of the observed waves and the effects of the waves on the current sheets.
S.D. Bale, V. Krasnoselskikh, E. Lorfèvre, D. Plettemeier, J. Souček, M. Steller, Š. Štverák, P. Trávníček, A. Vecchio, T. Horbury, H. O’Brien, V. Angelini, V. Evans, C. J. Owen, P. Louarn, A. Fedorov
How to cite: Graham, D., Khotyaintsev, Y., Steinvall, K., Vaivads, A., Maksimovic, M., Edberg, N., Johansson, E., Eriksson, A., Kretzschmar, M., and Chust, T. and the RPW, MAG and SWA Solar Orbiter teams: Thin current sheets and the associated wave activity observed by Solar Orbiter, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-15860, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15860, 2021.
