scholarly journals Intense Electric Fields and Electron-Scale Substructure Within Magnetotail Flux Ropes as Revealed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (17) ◽  
pp. 8783-8792 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Stawarz ◽  
J. P. Eastwood ◽  
K. J. Genestreti ◽  
R. Nakamura ◽  
R. E. Ergun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Fields ◽  
Magnetospheric Multiscale ◽  
Flux Ropes ◽  
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

scholarly journals Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Observations of Reconnecting Electric Fields in the Magnetotail on Kinetic Scales

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (17-18) ◽  
pp. 10295-10302 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. M. Macek ◽  
M. V. D. Silveira ◽  
D. G. Sibeck ◽  
B. L. Giles ◽  
J. L. Burch
Keyword(s):  
Electric Fields ◽  
Magnetospheric Multiscale ◽  
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

scholarly journals The geometric factor of electrostatic plasma analyzers: A case study from the Fast Plasma Investigation for the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission

2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 033303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glyn A. Collinson ◽  
John C. Dorelli ◽  
Levon A. Avanov ◽  
Gethyn R. Lewis ◽  
Thomas E. Moore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Factor ◽  
Magnetospheric Multiscale ◽  
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission ◽  
Plasma Investigation

scholarly journals Coalescence of Macroscopic Flux Ropes at the Subsolar Magnetopause: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations

2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zhou ◽  
J. Berchem ◽  
R. J. Walker ◽  
M. El-Alaoui ◽  
X. Deng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetospheric Multiscale ◽  
Flux Ropes

New Insights into the Nature of Turbulence in the Earth's Magnetosheath Using Magnetospheric MultiScale Mission Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 859 (2) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Breuillard ◽  
L. Matteini ◽  
M. R. Argall ◽  
F. Sahraoui ◽  
M. Andriopoulou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetospheric Multiscale ◽  
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection and Flux Transfer Events: BepiColombo Earth-Flyby

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Jie Sun ◽  
James Slavin ◽  
Rumi Nakamura ◽  
Daniel Heyner ◽  
Johannes Mieth
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Flux Rope ◽  
Transfer Event ◽  
Flux Transfer Events ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Flux Ropes ◽  
Flux Transfer ◽  
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

<p>BepiColombo is a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to the planet Mercury. The BepiColombo mission consists of two spacecraft, which are the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (Mio). The mission made its first planetary flyby, which is the only Earth flyby, on 10 April 2020, during which several instruments collected measurements. In this study, we analyze MPO magnetometer (MAG) observations of Flux Transfer Events (FTEs) in the magnetosheath and the structure of the subsolar magnetopause near the  flow stagnation point. The magnetosheath plasma beta was high with a value of ~ 8 and the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) was southward with a clock angle that decreased from ~ 100 degrees to ~ 150 degrees.  As the draped IMF became increasingly southward several of the flux transfer event (FTE)-type flux ropes were observed. These FTEs traveled southward indicating that the magnetopause X-line was located northward of the spacecraft, which is consistent with a dawnward tilt of the IMF. Most of the FTE-type flux ropes were in ion-scale, <10 s duration, suggesting that they were newly formed. Only one large-scale FTE-type flux rope, ~ 20 s, was observed. It was made up of two successive bipolar signatures in the normal magnetic field component, which is evidence of coalescence at a secondary reconnection site. Further analysis demonstrated that the dimensionless reconnection rate of the re-reconnection associated with the coalescence site was ~ 0.14. While this investigation was limited to the MPO MAG observations, it strongly supports a key feature of dayside reconnection discovered in the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, the growth of FTE-type flux ropes through coalescence at secondary reconnection sites.</p>

scholarly journals Mechanism of Reconnection on Kinetic Scales Based on Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Observations

2019 ◽  
Vol 885 (1) ◽  
pp. L26 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. M. Macek ◽  
M. V. D. Silveira ◽  
D. G. Sibeck ◽  
B. L. Giles ◽  
J. L. Burch
Keyword(s):  
Magnetospheric Multiscale ◽  
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
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