Magnetic Field Reconnection as the Source of the Solar wind

Nour E. Raouafi1, Guillermo A Stenborg2, Daniel B Seaton3, Haimin Wang4, Jiasheng Wang5, Craig DeForest6, Stuart Bale7, James Frederick Drake8, Timothy Simon Horbury9, Vadim Uritsky10, Judith T Karpen11, Sofiane Bourouaine2, Marco C M Velli12, Justin Christophe Kasper13, Pankaj Kumar14, C Richard DeVore15, Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta16 and Tai Phan17, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, (4)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, United States, (5)State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, Wuhan, China, (6)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (9)Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (10)Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, United States, (13)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (14)American University at NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (15)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (16)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (17)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States