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The effect of diamagnetic drift on motion of the dayside magnetopause reconnection line

Fear, R. C.; Marcucci, M. F.; Trenchi, L.

Magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause occurs with a large density asymmetry and for a large range of magnetic shears. In these conditions, a motion of the X line has been predicted in the direction of the electron diamagnetic drift. When this motion is super Alfvenic, reconnection should be suppressed. We analysed a large data set of Double St…