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Continuous magnetic reconnection at Earth's magnetopause

Fuselier, S. A.; Mende, S. B.; Frey, H. U. +1 more

The most important process that allows solar-wind plasma to cross the magnetopause and enter Earth's magnetosphere is the merging between solar-wind and terrestrial magnetic fields of opposite sense-magnetic reconnection. It is at present not known whether reconnection can happen in a continuous fashion or whether it is always intermittent. Solar …