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DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069212
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MMS observations of electron-scale filamentary currents in the reconnection exhaust and near the X line
作者: Phan T.D.; Eastwood J.P.; Cassak P.A.; Øieroset M.; Gosling J.T.; Gershman D.J.; Mozer F.S.; Shay M.A.; Fujimoto M.; Daughton W.; Drake J.F.; Burch J.L.; Torbert R.B.; Ergun R.E.; Chen L.J.; Wang S.; Pollock C.; Dorelli J.C.; Lavraud B.; Giles B.L.; Moore T.E.; Saito Y.; Avanov L.A.; Paterson W.; Strangeway R.J.; Russell C.T.; Khotyaintsev Y.; Lindqvist P.A.; Oka M.; Wilder F.D.
刊名: Geophysical Research Letters
ISSN: 0094-9629
EISSN: 1944-9360
出版年: 2016
卷: 43, 期:12
起始页码: 6060
结束页码: 6069
语种: 英语
英文关键词: current ; magnetic reconnection ; magnetopause
Scopus关键词: Electric currents ; Electric fields ; Fighter aircraft ; Ions ; Magnetopause ; Magnetoplasma ; Magnetosphere ; Electron currents ; Electron dissipation ; Electron distributions ; Inter-spacecraft separation ; Magnetic reconnections ; Magnetopause current sheets ; Magnetospheric multi scale ; Multiple crossings ; Electrons ; atmospheric electricity ; diffusion ; electric field ; electron ; electron density ; ion ; magnetic field ; magnetopause ; magnetosphere ; observational method ; outflow ; plasma ; vorticity
英文摘要: We report Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of macroscopic and electron-scale current layers in asymmetric reconnection. By intercomparing plasma, magnetic, and electric field data at multiple crossings of a reconnecting magnetopause on 22 October 2015, when the average interspacecraft separation was ~10 km, we demonstrate that the ion and electron moments are sufficiently accurate to provide reliable current density measurements at 30 ms cadence. These measurements, which resolve current layers narrower than the interspacecraft separation, reveal electron-scale filamentary Hall currents and electron vorticity within the reconnection exhaust far downstream of the X line and even in the magnetosheath. Slightly downstream of the X line, intense (up to 3 μA/m2) electron currents, a super-Alfvénic outflowing electron jet, and nongyrotropic crescent shape electron distributions were observed deep inside the ion-scale magnetopause current sheet and embedded in the ion diffusion region. These characteristics are similar to those attributed to the electron dissipation/diffusion region around the X line. ©2016. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/10592
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作者单位: Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States

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Phan T.D.,Eastwood J.P.,Cassak P.A.,et al. MMS observations of electron-scale filamentary currents in the reconnection exhaust and near the X line[J]. Geophysical Research Letters,2016-01-01,43(12).
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