Ion Reflection and transmission during reconnection at the Earth's subsolar magnetopause | Zendy

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Ion Reflection and transmission during reconnection at the Earth's subsolar magnetopause

Author(s) -

Fuselier S. A.,

Klumpar D. M.,

Shelley E. G.

Publication year - 1991

Publication title -

geophysical research letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007

H-Index - 273

eISSN - 1944-8007

pISSN - 0094-8276

DOI - 10.1029/90gl02676

Subject(s) - magnetopause , magnetosheath , geophysics , physics , magnetic reconnection , solar wind , reflection (computer programming) , magnetosphere , earth's magnetic field , computational physics , magnetic field , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language

Composition measurements in an accelerated flow event at the Earth's dayside magnetopause show evidence for reflection and transmission of magnetospheric and magnetosheath ion species. Furthermore, a single velocity transformation approximately tangent to the magnetopause surface orders the individual transmitted and reflected ion distributions on both sides of the magnetopause into field‐aligned flow at V A , the local Alfven speed. These observations provide strong evidence for a kinetic description of magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause.

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