Violation of Field Line Conservation and Associated Spatial Scales in Particle-in-Cell Simulations and MMS Data

Deirdre E Wendel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College, Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, Barbara L Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Roy B Torbert, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States