Coalescence of Macroscopic Flux Ropes at the Subsolar Magnetopause: MMS Observations

Meng Zhou1, Jean Berchem2, Mostafa El-Alaoui1, Raymond J Walker3, Giovanni Lapenta4, David Schriver2, Robert L Richard2, Haoming Liang2, Melvyn L Goldstein5, Xiaohua Deng6, Ye Pang6, Christopher T Russell7, Robert J Strangeway8, Cong Zhao9, William R Paterson10, Benoit Lavraud11, James L Burch12, Emanuele Cazzola13, Barbara L Giles14, Craig J Pollock15, Per-Arne Lindqvist16, Goran Tage Marklund17, Yuri V Khotyaintsev18, James Webster19 and Roy B Torbert20, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)KU Leuven, Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (5)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (6)Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, (7)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (9)University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (12)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (13)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (15)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (16)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (17)Royal Inst Technology, KTH/EES, Stockholm, Sweden, (18)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (19)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (20)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Physics Department, Durham, NH, United States