MMS observations of flux rope formation and magnetic reconnection implications in Earth’s central plasma sheet


Helen Sagges, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Aerospace Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Gangkai Poh, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Weijie Sun, University of California Berkeley, Space Science Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, James A Slavin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Daniel J Gershman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Suzanne Imber, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom