Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection in Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices

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Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufmsm11a0320b&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SM11A-0320

Physics

2723 Magnetic Reconnection (7526, 7835), 2724 Magnetopause And Boundary Layers

Scientific paper

While the Cluster spacecraft (separated by 2500 km) were skimming the dusk equatorial magnetopause during a period of northward interplanetary magnetic field and of large solar wind speed, all the plasma and magnetic field data displayed a periodicity of several minutes. The comparison between the observations and published MHD simulations allowed to interpret the Cluster data in terms of passages through fully evolved Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices. Evidence for reconnection occurring within the vortices and for plasma transport across the vortices, detected by the CIS plasma analyser, will be discussed.

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