MMS Observations of the Evolution of Ion-Scale Flux Transfer Events

Cong Zhao1, Christopher T Russell2, Robert J Strangeway3, William R Paterson4, Steven Petrinec5, Meng Zhou, PhD6, Brian J Anderson7, Wolfgang Baumjohann8, Kenneth R Bromund9, Mark Chutter10, David Fischer11, Daniel J Gershman12, Barbara L Giles12, Guan Le9, Rumi Nakamura8, Ferdinand Plaschke13, James A Slavin14 and Roy B Torbert15, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (3)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Lockheed Martin Corporation, Belmont, United States, (6)University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States, (7)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (8)IWF Institute for Space Research, Graz, Austria, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (11)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (13)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (14)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (15)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States