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Multiscale studies of the three-dimensional dayside X-line

Hasegawa, H.; Fuselier, S. A.; Burch, J. L. +4 more

We review recent experience from the Cluster, Double Star, and THEMIS missions for lessons that apply to the upcoming Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) being developed for launch in 2014. On global scales, simulation and statistical studies lead to mean configurations of dayside reconnection, implying specific relative alignments of the infl…