Magnetic Reconnection Inside a Flux Rope Induced by Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices

  • K. J. Hwang
  • , K. Dokgo
  • , E. Choi
  • , J. L. Burch
  • , D. G. Sibeck
  • , B. L. Giles
  • , H. Hasegawa
  • , H. S. Fu
  • , Y. Liu
  • , Z. Wang
  • , T. K.M. Nakamura
  • , X. Ma
  • , R. C. Fear
  • , Y. Khotyaintsev
  • , D. B. Graham
  • , Q. Q. Shi
  • , C. P. Escoubet
  • , D. J. Gershman
  • , W. R. Paterson
  • , C. J. Pollock
  • R. E. Ergun, R. B. Torbert, J. C. Dorelli, L. Avanov, C. T. Russell, R. J. Strangeway

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Original languageEnglish
Article numbere2019JA027665
JournalJournal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
Volume125
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2020
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Geophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

Keywords

  • Flux rope
  • Interlinked flux tubes
  • Kelvin-Helmholtz vortex
  • Kelvin-Helmholtz wave
  • Magnetopause
  • Reconnection

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