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Evolution of clustered magnetic nulls in a turbulent-like reconnection region in the magnetotail

Dunlop, Malcolm; He, Jiansen; Wang, Xin +6 more

Magnetic null points and flux ropes play important roles in the three-dimensional process of magnetic reconnection. In this study, a cluster of null points are reconstructed in the reconnection region in the magnetotail by applying a fitting-reconstruction method to measurements from the Cluster mission. The number of reconstructed null points var…