On the Signatures of Reconnection-Related Magnetic Islands at the Earth’s Magnetopause and in the Solar Wind: New Perspectives from Observations and Particle-In-Cell Simulations

Stefan Eriksson, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Giovanni Lapenta, KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States and David L Newman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States