Parker Solar Probe Observations of the Release of Density Blobs and Flux Ropes at the Heliospheric Current Sheet

Benoit Lavraud1, Naïs Fargette1, Stuart D Bale2, John W Bonnell2, Anthony W Case3, Thierry Dudok de Wit4, Jonathan P Eastwood5, Vincent N Genot6, Keith Goetz7, Léa Sophie Griton1, Jasper S Halekas8, Peter Harvey2, Jia Huang9, Justin Christophe Kasper10, Kristopher Gregory Klein11, Kelly E Korreck12, Athanasios Kouloumvakos1, Davin E Larson13, Michael Lavarra1, Roberto Livi14, Philippe Louarn15, Robert J MacDowall16, Milan Maksimovic17, David Malaspina18, Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla19, Tai D. Phan20, Rui Pinto21, Nicolas Poirier22, Marc Pulupa2, Nour E. Raouafi23, Alexis P Rouillard21, Michael Louis Stevens24, Adam Szabo19, Sergio Toledo-Redondo1, Nicholeen M Viall25 and Phyllis L Whittlesey14, (1)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (2)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)LPC2E, CNRS and University of Orléans, Orléans, France, (5)Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, (6)IRAP / CNRS / UPS, PEPS, Toulouse, France, (7)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (8)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (9)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (10)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (11)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (12)Smithsonian Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (13)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (14)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (15)IRAP, CNRS, Toulouse, France, (16)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (17)LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Meudon, France, (18)University of Colorado, Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (19)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (20)SSL, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (21)IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France, (22)L'Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France, (23)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (24)Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (25)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States