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Crooker et al. 2003
Crooker, N.U., Larson, D.E., Kahler, S.W., Lamassa, S.M. and Spence, H.E. (2003). Suprathermal electron isotropy in high-beta solar wind and its role in heat flux dropouts. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2003GL017036. issn: 0094-8276.

Time variations in plasma beta and a parameter which measures isotropy in suprathermal electron pitch angle distributions show a remarkably close correspondence throughout the solar wind. The finding implies that high-beta plasma, with its multiple magnetic holes and sharp field and plasma gradients, is conducive to electron pitch-angle scattering, which reduces heat flux from the Sun without field-line disconnection. Thus the finding impacts our understanding of signatures we use to determine magnetic topology in the heliosphere.

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Keywords
Interplanetary Physics, Solar wind plasma, Interplanetary Physics, Plasma waves and turbulence, Interplanetary Physics, Interplanetary magnetic fields
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Geophysical Research Letters
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