Imperial College London
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Emeritus ProfessorStevenSchwartz

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Distinguished Research Fellow
 
 
 
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Mr Luke Kratzmann +44 (0)20 7594 7770

 
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708BHuxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Eriksson:2016:10.1002/2016GL068783,
author = {Eriksson, S and Lavraud, B and Wilder, FD and Stawarz, JE and Giles, BL and Burch, JL and Baumjohann, W and Ergun, RE and Lindqvist, P-A and Magnes, W and Pollock, CJ and Russell, CT and Saito, Y and Strangeway, RJ and Torbert, RB and Gershman, DJ and Khotyaintsev, YV and Dorelli, JC and Schwartz, SJ and Avanov, L and Grimes, E and Vernisse, Y and Sturner, AP and Phan, TD and Marklund, GT and Moore, TE and Paterson, WR and Goodrich, KA},
doi = {10.1002/2016GL068783},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
pages = {5606--5615},
title = {Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of magnetic reconnection associated with Kelvin-Helmholtz waves},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068783},
volume = {43},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft recorded the first direct evidence of reconnection exhausts associated with Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) waves at the duskside magnetopause on 8 September 2015 which allows for local mass and energy transport across the flank magnetopause. Pressure anisotropy-weighted Walén analyses confirmed in-plane exhausts across 22 of 42 KH-related trailing magnetopause current sheets (CSs). Twenty-one jets were observed by all spacecraft, with small variations in ion velocity, along the same sunward or antisunward direction with nearly equal probability. One exhaust was only observed by the MMS-1,2 pair, while MMS-3,4 traversed a narrow CS (1.5 ion inertial length) in the vicinity of an electron diffusion region. The exhausts were locally 2-D planar in nature as MMS-1,2 observed almost identical signatures separated along the guide-field. Asymmetric magnetic and electric Hall fields are reported in agreement with a strong guide-field and a weak plasma density asymmetry across the magnetopause CS.
AU  - Eriksson,S
AU  - Lavraud,B
AU  - Wilder,FD
AU  - Stawarz,JE
AU  - Giles,BL
AU  - Burch,JL
AU  - Baumjohann,W
AU  - Ergun,RE
AU  - Lindqvist,P-A
AU  - Magnes,W
AU  - Pollock,CJ
AU  - Russell,CT
AU  - Saito,Y
AU  - Strangeway,RJ
AU  - Torbert,RB
AU  - Gershman,DJ
AU  - Khotyaintsev,YV
AU  - Dorelli,JC
AU  - Schwartz,SJ
AU  - Avanov,L
AU  - Grimes,E
AU  - Vernisse,Y
AU  - Sturner,AP
AU  - Phan,TD
AU  - Marklund,GT
AU  - Moore,TE
AU  - Paterson,WR
AU  - Goodrich,KA
DO  - 10.1002/2016GL068783
EP  - 5615
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1944-8007
SP  - 5606
TI  - Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of magnetic reconnection associated with Kelvin-Helmholtz waves
T2  - Geophysical Research Letters
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068783
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/42514
VL  - 43
ER  -
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