Electron mixing in the exhaust of asymmetric magnetic reconnection with a guide field
Abstract
In this study, we investigate an exhaust crossing of asymmetric guide-field reconnection observed by Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft at the dayside magnetopause. One MMS spacecraft (MMS4) observed multi-component electron distributions: (1) an anti-parallel sheath-inflow electron beam at lower-energies (30 - 70 eV); (2) a parallel electron beam at middle-energies (150 -250 eV) after acceleration and reflection; and (3) a high-energy electron population perpendicular to the magnetic field (450 - 700 eV), while all other three MMS spacecraft, with a separation of
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMSM21B3157T
- Keywords:
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- 2723 Magnetic reconnection;
- MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS;
- 2744 Magnetotail;
- MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS;
- 7526 Magnetic reconnection;
- SOLAR PHYSICS;
- ASTROPHYSICS;
- AND ASTRONOMY;
- 7835 Magnetic reconnection;
- SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS