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Reconnection at High Latitudes: Antiparallel Merging

Escoubet, C. P.; Dunlop, M. W.; Fear, R. C. +5 more

New investigations have renewed the debate on the occurrence of magnetic reconnection of Earth’s dayside magnetopause. Here, we show for the first time strong evidence for a high-latitude reconnection site, located on initially closed field lines, where the magnetic field orientations inside and outside the magnetopause are close to antiparallel. …