Observation of high‐frequency electrostatic waves in the vicinity of the reconnection ion diffusion region by the spacecraft of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission by M. Zhou, M. Ashour‐Abdalla, J. Berchem, R. J. Walker, H. Liang, M. El‐Alaoui, M. L. Goldstein, P.‐A. Lindqvist, G. Marklund, Y. V. Khotyaintsev, R. E. Ergun, Victoria Wilder, C. T. Russell, R. J. Strangeway, C. Zhao, W. R. Paterson, B. L. Giles, C. J. Pollock, R. B. Torbert, J. L. Burch, J. C. Dorelli, D. J. Gershman, L. A. Avanov, B. Lavraud, M. O. Chandler

“…In addition to electron beam modes that have been previously detected at the separatrix on the magnetospheric side of the magnetopause, we report, for the first time, the existence of electron cyclotron harmonic waves at the magnetosheath separatrix. …”
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