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Professor Jonathan P. Eastwood

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Space Physics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

jonathan.eastwood Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mr Luke Kratzmann +44 (0)20 7594 7770

 
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Location

 

Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Øieroset:2017:10.1002/2017GL074196,
author = {Øieroset, M and Phan, TD and Shay, MA and Haggerty, CC and Fujimoto, M and Angelopoulos, V and Eastwood, JP and Mozer, FS},
doi = {10.1002/2017GL074196},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
pages = {7598--7606},
title = {THEMIS multispacecraft observations of a reconnecting magnetosheath current sheet with symmetric boundary conditions and a large guide field},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074196},
volume = {44},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We report three spacecraft observations of a reconnecting magnetosheath current sheet with a guide field of unity, with THEMIS D (THD) and THEMIS E (THE)/THEMIS A (THA) observing oppositely directed reconnection exhausts, indicating the presence of an X line between the spacecraft. The near-constant convective speed of the magnetosheath current sheet allowed the direct translation of the observed time series into spatial profiles. THD observed asymmetries in the plasma density and temperature profiles across the exhaust, characteristics of symmetric reconnection with a guide field. The exhausts at THE and THA, on the other hand, were not the expected mirror image of the THD exhaust in terms of the plasma and field profiles. They consisted of a main outflow at the center of the current sheet, flanked by oppositely directed flows at the two edges of the current sheet, suggesting the presence of a second X line, whose outflow wraps around the outflow from the first X line.
AU  - Øieroset,M
AU  - Phan,TD
AU  - Shay,MA
AU  - Haggerty,CC
AU  - Fujimoto,M
AU  - Angelopoulos,V
AU  - Eastwood,JP
AU  - Mozer,FS
DO  - 10.1002/2017GL074196
EP  - 7606
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 0094-8276
SP  - 7598
TI  - THEMIS multispacecraft observations of a reconnecting magnetosheath current sheet with symmetric boundary conditions and a large guide field
T2  - Geophysical Research Letters
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074196
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/52116
VL  - 44
ER  -
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