MMS Observation of Magnetic Reconnection in the Turbulent Magnetosheath

• Published in: Journal of geophysical research. Space physics Vol. 122; no. 11; pp. 11,442 - 11,467
• Main Authors: Vörös, Z., Yordanova, E., Varsani, A., Genestreti, K. J., Khotyaintsev, Yu. V., Li, W., Graham, D. B., Norgren, C., Nakamura, R., Narita, Y., Plaschke, F., Magnes, W., Baumjohann, W., Fischer, D., Vaivads, A., Eriksson, E., Lindqvist, P.‐A., Marklund, G., Ergun, R. E., Leitner, M., Leubner, M. P., Strangeway, R. J., Le Contel, O., Pollock, C., Giles, B. J., Torbert, R. B., Burch, J. L., Avanov, L. A., Dorelli, J. C., Gershman, D. J., Paterson, W. R., Lavraud, B., Saito, Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.11.2017
• Subjects: magnetic reconnection
• ISSN: 2169-9380; 2169-9402
• DOI: 10.1002/2017JA024535

In this paper we use the full armament of the MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale) spacecraft to study magnetic reconnection in the turbulent magnetosheath downstream of a quasi‐parallel bow shock. Contrarily to the magnetopause and magnetotail cases, only a few observations of reconnection in the magnet...