MMS observations of guide field reconnection at the interface between colliding reconnection jets inside flux rope-like structures at the magnetopause
MMS observations of guide field reconnection at the interface between colliding reconnection jets inside flux rope-like structures at the magnetopause
Marit Oieroset1, Tai Phan2, Colby C Haggerty3, Michael Shay4, Jonathan P Eastwood5, Daniel J Gershman6, James Frederick Drake7, Masaki Fujimoto8, Robert Ergun9, Forrest Mozer10, Mitsuo Oka11, Roy B Torbert12, James L Burch12, Shan Wang13, Li J Chen14, Marc Swisdak15, Craig J Pollock16, John C Dorelli14, Stephen A Fuselier17, Benoit Lavraud18, Issaad Kacem19, Barbara L Giles6, Thomas Earle Moore20, Yoshifumi Saito21, Levon A Avanov14, William R Paterson22, Robert J Strangeway23, Steven J Schwartz24, Yuri V Khotyaintsev25, Per-Arne Lindqvist26 and Kittipat Malakit27, (1)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chicago, United States, (4)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (5)Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (8)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, (9)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (11)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (12)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (13)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (15)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (16)Denali Scientific, San Antonio, United States, (17)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (18)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (19)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (20)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (21)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, (22)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (23)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (24)Earth and planetary and Space Sciences, Los angeles, United States, (25)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (26)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (27)Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand