Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005agufmsm23a0389f&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #SM23A-0389
Mathematics
Probability
2723 Magnetic Reconnection (7526, 7835), 7526 Magnetic Reconnection (2723, 7835), 7835 Magnetic Reconnection (2723, 7526), 7894 Instruments And Techniques
Scientific paper
The magnetospheric multiscale (MMS) mission will resolve all important scales relevant to the reconnection processes at the Earth's magnetopause and in the magnetotail. In doing so, it will determine the kinetic processes responsible for collisionless magnetic reconnection, how this reconnection is initiated and sustained, where it occurs, and what role external forces and other processes such as turbulence play in reconnection. Measurements within the reconnection diffusion region (where the ions and electrons are demagnetized) are key to answering these difficult questions. The MMS mission is designed to maximize the probability of encountering the diffusion regions at the magnetopause and in the magnetotail. Furthermore, the spacecraft separation strategy is designed to resolve the important scales within these diffusion regions. The overall mission design maximizes the science return within the spacecraft mass (fuel) budget. Mission phases and spacecraft separation strategies are described along with modeling used to predict encounter probabilities with the diffusion regions.
Fuselier Stephen A.
Hesse Matthias
Hughes S. P.
Lewis Wayne
Petrinec Steven M.
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