Ion Larmor radius effects near a reconnection X line at the magnetopause: THEMIS observations and simulation comparison

• Main Authors: T. D. Phan, M. A. Shay, C. C. Haggerty, J. T. Gosling, J. P. Eastwood, M. Fujimoto, K. Malakit, F. S. Mozer, P. A. Cassak, M. Oieroset, V. Angelopoulos
• Other Authors: Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/43570
• Institution: Mahidol University

©2016. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. We report a Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS-D) spacecraft crossing of a magnetopause reconnection exhaust ~9 ion skin depths (di) downstream of an X line. The crossing was characterized by ion jetting...