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

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 techniques,...

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Veröffentlicht in:Geophysical research letters. - 1984. - 43(2016), 10 vom: 28. Mai, Seite 4716-4724
1. Verfasser: Eastwood, J P (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Phan, T D, Cassak, P A, Gershman, D J, Haggerty, C, Malakit, K, Shay, M A, Mistry, R, Øieroset, M, Russell, C T, Slavin, J A, Argall, M R, Avanov, L A, Burch, J L, Chen, L J, Dorelli, J C, Ergun, R E, Giles, B L, Khotyaintsev, Y, Lavraud, B, Lindqvist, P A, Moore, T E, Nakamura, R, Paterson, W, Pollock, C, Strangeway, R J, Torbert, R B, Wang, S
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2016
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Geophysical research letters
Schlagworte:Journal Article flux rope magnetic reconnection magnetopause magnetospheric multiscale secondary island