Posted in physics.space-ph · 2026-01-07 · Samuel T. Badman, Naïs Fargette, Lorenzo Matteini, Oleksiy V. Agapitov, Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, Stuart D. Bale, Srijan Bharati Das, Nina Bizien, Trevor A. Bowen, Thierry Dudok de Wit, Clara Froment, Timothy Horbury, Jia Huang, Vamsee Krishna Jagarlamudi, Andrea Larosa, Maria S. Madjarska, Olga Panasenco, Etienne Pariat, Nour E. Raouafi, Alexis P. Rouillard, David Ruffolo, Nikos Sioulas, Shirsh Lata Soni, Luca Sorriso-Valvo, Gabriel Ho Hin Suen, Marco Velli, Jaye Verniero
Magnetic switchbacks are fluctuations in the solar wind in which the interplanetary magnetic field sharply deflects away from its background direction so as to create folds in magnetic field lines while remaining of roughly constant magnitude. The magnetic field and velocity fluctuations are extremely well correlated in a way...