Wind Current Sheet_Exhaust Event List in LMN Coordinates

https://doi.org/10.48322/tyd4-fw87

2022-04-20 12:34:56.789

The dataset contains a list of solar wind current sheet exhaust event data derived from Wind interplanetary magnetic field and solar wind plasma observations. The list is described in a peer reviewed article, Eriksson et al. 2022, titled: Characteristics of Multi-Scale Current Sheets in the Solar Wind at 1 AU Associated with Magnetic Reconnection and the Case for a Heliospheric Current Sheet Avalanche. The data is listed as an ASCII table with eleven columns including the current sheet (CS) start date/time and stop date/time, and the three unit vectors of each CS in a GSE base coordinate system. Here, NGSE is the CS normal direction, LGSE is the direction of the reconnecting component of the magnetic field, and MGSE is the cross-product MGSE = [NGSE cross LGSE] vector.

Stefan Eriksson

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2004-07-09 07:06:25.299Z

2014-10-14 17:09:20.000Z

This list consists of 3,374 events where it was possible to determine the time period of magnetic reconnection exhausts in the ecliptic plane of the solar wind at 1 AU.

Begin ISO 8601 Date and Time

Column 1

Begin date and time of the current sheet exhaust as ISO 8601 Date and Time

2004-07-09T07:06:25.299Z

2014-10-14T17:09:20.000Z

End ISO 8601 Date and Time

Column 2

End date and time of the current sheet exhaust as ISO 8601 Date and Time

2004-07-09T07:06:39.299Z

2014-10-14T17:18:50.000Z

Current Sheet Normal Direction

Current sheet normal direction expressed as a unit vector in a GSE base coordinate system

Direction of the Reconnecting Component of the Magnetic Field

Direction of the reconnecting component of the magnetic field expressed as a unit vector in a GSE base coordinate system

Cross-Product MGSE = [NGSE cross LGSE] Direction

Cross-product MGSE = [NGSE cross LGSE] direction expressed as a unit vector in a GSE base coordinate system