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Extended Magnetic Reconnection across the Dayside Magnetopause

Berchem, J.; Lavraud, B.; Wild, J. A. +18 more

The extent of where magnetic reconnection (MR), the dominant process responsible for energy and plasma transport into the magnetosphere, operates across Earth’s dayside magnetopause has previously been only indirectly shown by observations. We report the first direct evidence of X-line structure resulting from the operation of MR at each of two wi…