Ion‐scale secondary flux ropes generated by magnetopause reconnection as resolved by MMS

Ion‐scale secondary flux ropes generated by magnetopause reconnection as resolved by MMS

Abstract New Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observations of small‐scale (~7 ion inertial length radius) flux transfer events (FTEs) at the dayside magnetopause are reported. The 10 km MMS tetrahedron size enables their structure and properties to be calculated using a variety of multispacecraft tec...

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Main Authors: J. P. Eastwood, T. D. Phan, P. A. Cassak, D. J. Gershman, C. Haggerty, K. Malakit, M. A. Shay, R. Mistry, M. Øieroset, C. T. Russell, J. A. Slavin, M. R. Argall, L. A. Avanov, J. L. Burch, L. J. Chen, J. C. Dorelli, R. E. Ergun, B. L. Giles, Y. Khotyaintsev, B. Lavraud, P. A. Lindqvist, T. E. Moore, R. Nakamura, W. Paterson, C. Pollock, R. J. Strangeway, R. B. Torbert, S. Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-05-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
Subjects:
magnetic reconnection
magnetopause
flux rope
secondary island
magnetospheric multiscale
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068747
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