The dayside reconnection X line
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Extended magnetic reconnection across the dayside magnetopause.
The extent of where magnetic reconnection (MR), the dominant process responsible for energy and plasma transport into the magnetosphere, operates across Earth's dayside magnetopause has previously been only indirectly shown by observations. We report the first direct evidence of X-line structure resulting from the operation of MR at each of two widely separated locations along the tilted, subso...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/2002ja009381