Structure of plasma boundaries with a large density gradient observed by MAVEN and its effects on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

Kanako Seki1, Yosuke Matsumoto2, Naoki Terada3, Takuya Hara4, Kazunari Matsunaga5, Kei Masunaga5, Masaki Fujimoto6, Dave A Brain7, James P McFadden4, Jasper S Halekas8, David L Mitchell9, Laila Andersson10, Jared R Espley11, John E P Connerney12, Daniel N Baker10 and Bruce Martin Jakosky13, (1)University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, (3)Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan, (4)SSL, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (5)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (6)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (8)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (9)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (10)LASP, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (12)Space Research Corporation, Annapolis, MD, United States, (13)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States