Magnetic reconnection as a source of velocity spikes in the solar wind

James Frederick Drake, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Samuel Timothy Badman, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Stuart D Bale, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Justin Christophe Kasper, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States