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Coronal heating at multiple reconnection sites is expected to supply plasmoids to the corona with length scales of the order of a few hundred kilometers. Evidence for the existence of structures on these scales may have already been detected in radio occultation studies of the inner wind. Such plasmoids will contribute to accelerating the solar wind.
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Mullan, D.J. (1991). Coronal Heating by Nanoflares: Possible Evidence of Plasmoids in Radio Occultation Data. In: Ulmschneider, P., Priest, E.R., Rosner, R. (eds) Mechanisms of Chromospheric and Coronal Heating. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87455-0_107
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