Comparative Examination of Ion Energization Mechanisms in Coalescing FTE-Type Flux Ropes


Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti1, Minna Palmroth2, James A Slavin3, Markus Batttarbee2, Maxime Grandin4 and Daniel J Gershman5, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, Helsinki, Finland, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States