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Electron-scale dynamics of the diffusion region during symmetric magnetic reconnection in space

Published:2018-12-21 Issue:6421 Volume:362 Page:1391-1395
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Torbert R. B.¹²^ORCID,Burch J. L.²^ORCID,Phan T. D.³^ORCID,Hesse M.²⁴^ORCID,Argall M. R.¹^ORCID,Shuster J.⁵^ORCID,Ergun R. E.⁶^ORCID,Alm L.⁷^ORCID,Nakamura R.⁸^ORCID,Genestreti K. J.⁸,Gershman D. J.⁵^ORCID,Paterson W. R.⁵^ORCID,Turner D. L.⁹^ORCID,Cohen I.¹⁰^ORCID,Giles B. L.⁵^ORCID,Pollock C. J.⁵^ORCID,Wang S.¹¹^ORCID,Chen L.-J.⁵¹¹^ORCID,Stawarz J. E.¹²^ORCID,Eastwood J. P.¹²^ORCID,Hwang K. J.²^ORCID,Farrugia C.¹^ORCID,Dors I.¹,Vaith H.¹,Mouikis C.¹^ORCID,Ardakani A.¹^ORCID,Mauk B. H.¹⁰^ORCID,Fuselier S. A.²¹³^ORCID,Russell C. T.¹⁴^ORCID,Strangeway R. J.¹⁴^ORCID,Moore T. E.⁵^ORCID,Drake J. F.¹¹^ORCID,Shay M. A.¹⁵^ORCID,Khotyaintsev Yuri V.⁷^ORCID,Lindqvist P.-A.¹⁶^ORCID,Baumjohann W.⁸^ORCID,Wilder F. D.⁶^ORCID,Ahmadi N.⁶^ORCID,Dorelli J. C.⁵^ORCID,Avanov L. A.⁵^ORCID,Oka M.³^ORCID,Baker D. N.⁶^ORCID,Fennell J. F.⁹^ORCID,Blake J. B.⁹^ORCID,Jaynes A. N.¹⁷^ORCID,Le Contel O.¹⁸^ORCID,Petrinec S. M.¹⁹^ORCID,Lavraud B.²⁰^ORCID,Saito Y.²¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.

2. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, TX, USA.

3. University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

4. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

5. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.

6. University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, USA.

7. Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden.

8. Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria.

9. Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA.

10. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA.

11. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

12. Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK.

13. University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA.

14. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

15. University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.

16. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

17. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.

18. Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université/Univ. Paris Sud/Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France.

19. Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

20. Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, CNRS, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.

21. Institute for Space and Astronautical Sciences, Sagamihara, Japan.

Abstract

Reconnection in Earth's magnetotail Magnetic fields in plasmas can rapidly rearrange themselves in a process known as magnetic reconnection, which releases energy and accelerates particles. Torbert et al. used the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to probe a reconnection event in Earth's magnetotail—the region of plasma downstream from the planet as it moves through the solar wind. MMS has previously studied reconnection in the upstream magnetopause, but a different orbit was used to study the magnetotail, where the symmetry of the process is different. The authors measured plasma properties on scales of the electron dynamics, leading to insights that will apply in other regions where magnetic reconnection occurs. Science , this issue p. 1391

Funder

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Science and Technology Facilities Council

CNES

Swedish National Space Board

CNRS

Austrian Research Promotion Agency

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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