Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufmsm52b..04p&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #SM52B-04
Physics
[2723] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetic Reconnection, [2728] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetosheath, [2784] Magnetospheric Physics / Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions
Scientific paper
We report in-situ measurements by three THEMIS spacecraft showing the evolution of reconnection in a solar wind current sheet as the current sheet transited from the solar wind across the bow shock and close to the magnetopause on July 11, 2008. The observations suggest that the solar wind reconnection exhaust within the current sheet was disrupted by its interaction with the bow shock, while the subsequent compression of the current sheet against the magnetopause significantly reduced both the current sheet thickness and the plasma beta and initiated reconnection at a new X-line located within the magnetosheath.
Angelopoulos Vassilis
Auster H.
Eastwood Jonathan P.
Gosling Jack T.
Larson Davin E.
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