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Transport of solar wind into Earth's magnetosphere through rolled-up Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices

Balogh, A.; Hasegawa, H.; Fujimoto, M. +5 more

Establishing the mechanisms by which the solar wind enters Earth's magnetosphere is one of the biggest goals of magnetospheric physics, as it forms the basis of space weather phenomena such as magnetic storms and aurorae. It is generally believed that magnetic reconnection is the dominant process, especially during southward solar-wind magnetic fi…