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Feng et al. 2007
Feng, H.Q., Wu, D.J. and Chao, J.K. (2007). Size and energy distributions of interplanetary magnetic flux ropes. Journal of Geophysical Research 112: doi: 10.1029/2006JA011962. issn: 0148-0227.

In observations from 1995 to 2001 from the Wind spacecraft, 144 interplanetary magnetic flux ropes were identified in the solar wind around 1 AU. Their durations vary from tens of minutes to tens of hours. These magnetic flux ropes include many small- and intermediate-sized structures and display a continuous distribution in size. Energies of these flux ropes are estimated and it is found that the distribution of their energies is a good power law spectrum with an index ~-0.87. The possible relationship between them and solar eruptions is discussed. It is suggested that like interplanetary magnetic clouds are interplanetary coronal mass ejections, the small- and intermediate-sized interplanetary magnetic flux ropes are the interplanetary manifestations of small coronal mass ejections produced in small solar eruptions. However, these small coronal mass ejections are too weak to appear clearly in the coronagraph observations as an ordinary coronal mass ejection.

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Keywords
Interplanetary Physics, Coronal mass ejections, Interplanetary Physics, Ejecta, driver gases, and magnetic clouds, Interplanetary Physics, Interplanetary magnetic fields, Interplanetary Physics, Solar wind plasma
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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