3 papers
astro-ph.SR2026
Ion-Scale Current Sheets Embedded in Reconnection Jet Shear Layer of the Near-Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet
Dae-Young Lee, Dooyoung Choi, Kyung-Eun Choi +1
Context. Magnetic reconnection in the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) plays an important role in restructuring the solar wind magnetic topology and generating plasma jets and magn…
physics.space-ph2026
Wave Activity at MHD-ion Scales Associated with Switchbacks
Kyung-Eun Choi, Oleksiy V. Agapitov, Forrest Mozer +9
Magnetic switchbacks (SB) -- the localized magnetic structures with magnetic field direction inclined at an angle relative to the background -- in the young solar wind ha…
astro-ph.SR2025
Switchbacks near Boundaries of Small-scale Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Young Solar Wind from Parker Solar Probe Observations
Kyung-Eun Choi, Oleksiy V. Agapitov, Dae-Young Lee +5
The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission has revealed frequent occurrences of switchbacks (SBs) and small-scale magnetic flux ropes (SMFRs) as prominent structures within the solar win…