Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Observations of Magnetic Flux Ropes in the Earth’s Plasma Sheet
James A Slavin1, Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti2, Gangkai Poh2, Guan Le3, Christopher T Russell4, Rumi Nakamura5, Wolfgang Baumjohann6, Roy B Torbert7, Daniel J Gershman3, Craig J Pollock8, Barbara L Giles9, Thomas E Moore3 and James L Burch7, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)UCLA, Earth Planets and Space, Los Angeles, United States, (5)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (6)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (7)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (8)Denali Scientific, San Antonio, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States