Geotail encounter with reconnection diffusion region in the Earth's magnetotail: Evidence of multiple X lines collisionless reconnection?

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May 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004jgra..10905206d&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 109, Issue A5, CiteID A05206

Physics

Plasma Physics

18

Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail Boundary Layers, Space Plasma Physics: Charged Particle Motion And Acceleration, Space Plasma Physics: Wave/Particle Interactions, Space Plasma Physics: Electrostatic Structures

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On 11 December 1994 the Geotail spacecraft encountered an active reconnection diffusion region around the X line in the Earth's magnetotail. Three interesting features were observed. One is quadrupole pattern of the out-of-plane By magnetic field component during the passage of magnetic islands and the crossing of the neutral sheet. The second is a direction reversal of the electron beams in the vicinity of the separatrix of the magnetic topology of reconnection. The third is a clear plasma flow reversal. By combining the observations of plasma, magnetic field, particles, and waves, this report may provide evidence of multiple X lines collisionless reconnection in the magnetotail at the microscopic level.

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