A little over 3.5 s into the experiment the plasma became detached from the divertors’ graphite surfaces, at which point oscillations were observed. This was a fluctuation in the size of the magnetic ...

The magnetic field and plasma parameters were measured by the STEREO-B spacecraft. The agreement between theory and data is within 1 percent of the measured position of the LE.

Those forecasts arose from parameters in the simple extrapolations that regarded plasma as a fluid without considering the important kinetic, or particle motion, effects.