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Thin current sheets observation by MMS during a near-Earth's magnetotail reconnection event

R. Nakamura
A. Varsani
T. Nakamura
  • Fonction : Auteur
K. Genestreti
  • Fonction : Auteur
F. Plaschke
W. Baumjohann
T. Nagai
J. L. Burch
  • Fonction : Auteur
I. J. Cohen
  • Fonction : Auteur
R. Ergun
S. A. Fuselier
B. L. Giles
  • Fonction : Auteur
Olivier Le Contel
W. Magnes
S. J. Schwartz
  • Fonction : Auteur
R. J. Strangeway
  • Fonction : Auteur
R. B. Torbert
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

During summer 2017, the four spacecraft of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission traversed the nightside magnetotail current sheet at an apogee of 25 RE. They detected a number of flow reversal events suggestive of the passage of the reconnection current sheet. Due to the mission's unprecedented high-time resolution and spatial separation well below the ion scales, structure of thin current sheets is well resolved both with plasma and field measurements. In this study we examine the detailed structure of thin current sheets during a flow reversal event from tailward flow to Earthward flow, when MMS crossed the center of the current sheet . We investigate the changes in the structure of the thin current sheet relative to the X-point based on multi-point analysis. We determine the motion and strength of the current sheet from curlometer calculations comparing these with currents obtained from the particle data. The observed structures of these current sheets are also compared with simulations.
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hal-02796710 , version 1 (05-06-2020)

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R. Nakamura, A. Varsani, T. Nakamura, K. Genestreti, F. Plaschke, et al.. Thin current sheets observation by MMS during a near-Earth's magnetotail reconnection event. AGU Fall Meeting, Dec 2017, New Orleans, Louisiane, United States. ⟨hal-02796710⟩
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