Speaker
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First Name: Corentin
Last Name: Rasser
Affiliation: Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France
All Authors: Rasser, Corentin; Génot, Vincent; Lavraud, Benoit; Louarn, Philippe; Réville, Victor; Fargette, Naïs; Vergé, Tristan; Rungployphan, Kieokaew; Fedorov, Andrei; Rouillard, Alexis; Barthe, Alain; Owen, Chris
Abstract: Magnetic reconnection is a ubiquitous and frequent phenomenon in the solar wind converting magnetic energy into kinetic and thermal energy. The well-defined magnetic reconnection patterns allowed to establish a statistical detection procedure by Fargette N. et al (2023). By using this algorithm and the Solar Orbiter data, we can now investigate efficiently more reconnection events. We analyse the particle moments, magnetic topology and velocity distribution function observed during different reconnection events, and achieve a statistical study aiming to classify the events in terms of solar wind regime, plasma parameter and the other physical quantities. In addition, the alpha and protons populations behaviour is observed and a statistical characterisation of their relative dynamics across multiple events is performed.