Evidence for extended sub-ion scale current sheets at the subsolar magnetopause under northward and southward IMF conditions: Comparison of MMS observations with global MHD simulations
John Dorelli1, Natalia Buzulukova2, Daniel J Gershman3, Amy Catherine Rager4, Alex Glocer5, Levon A Avanov6, Barbara L Giles1, William R Paterson6, Craig J Pollock7, Robert J Strangeway8, Yuri V Khotyaintsev9, Christopher T Russell10, Robert Ergun11, Roy B Torbert12 and James L Burch13, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Division, Greenbelt, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (9)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (10)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, (12)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Physics Department, Durham, NH, United States, (13)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
