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Two interacting X lines in magnetotail : Evolution of collision between the counterstreaming jets. / Alexandrova, Alexandra; Nakamura, Rumi; Panov, Evgeny V.; Sasunov, Yury L.; Nakamura, Takuma; Vörös, Zoltán; Retinò, Alessandro; Semenov, Vladimir S.
In: Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 43, No. 15, 16.08.2016, p. 7795-7803.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Two interacting X lines in magnetotail
T2 - Evolution of collision between the counterstreaming jets
AU - Alexandrova, Alexandra
AU - Nakamura, Rumi
AU - Panov, Evgeny V.
AU - Sasunov, Yury L.
AU - Nakamura, Takuma
AU - Vörös, Zoltán
AU - Retinò, Alessandro
AU - Semenov, Vladimir S.
N1 - Funding Information: The research was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant P23862-N16, A.A. and R.N., and grant P24740-N27, Z.V. V.S.S. was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) grant 16-05-0047016. A.A. acknowledges the Cluster Science Archive for use of data presented and Emmanuel Penou for the ion velocity distribution provided by the CLWeb software. A.A. thanks Olga Alexandrova, Catherine Lacombe, and Patrick Canu for their help in STAFF data. We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for evaluating the paper. Publisher Copyright: ©2016. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/8/16
Y1 - 2016/8/16
N2 - We study the process of collision between the counterstreaming jets flowing out from two reconnection sites in the Earth's magnetotail. The X lines, bracketing the region of jets collision, were passing by two Cluster probes successively in tailward direction. Two probes observed two different stages of the collision process. At the jets collision site, a probe first observed an ion-scale current sheet-like structure, while the other probe observed more compressed one later. The strong wave activities on both ion and electron scales were seen within the compressed layer. Such evolution of the jets collision resulting in the formation of the compressed boundary between the active X lines shows an example of interaction between the X lines during multiple reconnection.
AB - We study the process of collision between the counterstreaming jets flowing out from two reconnection sites in the Earth's magnetotail. The X lines, bracketing the region of jets collision, were passing by two Cluster probes successively in tailward direction. Two probes observed two different stages of the collision process. At the jets collision site, a probe first observed an ion-scale current sheet-like structure, while the other probe observed more compressed one later. The strong wave activities on both ion and electron scales were seen within the compressed layer. Such evolution of the jets collision resulting in the formation of the compressed boundary between the active X lines shows an example of interaction between the X lines during multiple reconnection.
KW - jets collision
KW - magnetic reconnection
KW - multiple reconnection
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U2 - 10.1002/2016GL069823
DO - 10.1002/2016GL069823
M3 - Article
VL - 43
SP - 7795
EP - 7803
JO - Geophysical Research Letters
JF - Geophysical Research Letters
SN - 0094-8276
IS - 15
ER -
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