MMS observations of large guide field symmetric reconnection between colliding reconnection jets at the center of a magnetic flux rope at the magnetopause

Marit Oieroset1, Tai Phan2, Colby C Haggerty3, Michael A. Shay4, Jonathan P Eastwood5, Daniel J Gershman6, James Frederick Drake7, Masaki Fujimoto8, James Webster9, Forrest Mozer10, Mitsuo Oka2, Roy B Torbert11, James L Burch12, Shan Wang7, Li-Jen Chen13, Marc Swisdak14, Craig J Pollock13, John Dorelli15, Stephen A Fuselier16, Benoit Lavraud17, Barbara L Giles15, Thomas Earle Moore18, Yoshifumi Saito19, Levon A Avanov13, William R Paterson13, Robert J Strangeway20, Christopher T Russell21, Yuri V Khotyaintsev22, Per-Arne Lindqvist23 and Kittipat Malakit24, (1)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (4)University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, (5)Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, (6)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (7)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (8)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (11)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (12)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)University of Maryland College Park, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, College Park, MD, United States, (15)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (16)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (17)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (18)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, (19)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, (20)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (21)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (22)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (23)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (24)Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand