Magnetotail reconnection following a flapping motion of the magnetotail on 17 July 2017


Kyoung-Joo Hwang1, Eunjin Choi2, Kyunghwan Dokgo2, James L Burch2, David G Sibeck3, Barbara L Giles4, Craig J Pollock5, Yuri Khotyaintsev6, Cecilia Norgren7, Daniel Graham6, C Philippe Escoubet8, Andrei Runov9, Rumi Nakamura10, Daniel J Gershman4, James Webster11, Roy B Torbert12, John C Dorelli13, Levon A Avanov13, William R Paterson14, Christopher T Russell15 and Robert J Strangeway16, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)Denali Scientific, NA, Healy, United States, (6)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (7)University of Bergen, Space Plasma Physics Group, Bergen, Norway, (8)ESTEC/ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (9)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (11)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (15)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (16)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States