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Re-Reconnection Processes of Magnetopause Flux Ropes: Three-Dimensional Global Hybrid Simulations


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dc.creatorGuo, Jin
dc.creatorLu, San
dc.creatorLu, Quanming
dc.creatorLin, Yu
dc.creatorWang, Xueyi
dc.creatorHuang, Kai
dc.creatorWang, Rongsheng
dc.creatorWang, Shui
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-18T20:16:15Z
dc.date.available2022-10-18T20:16:15Z
dc.date.created2021
dc.identifier10.1029/2021JA029388en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021JA029388en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50413
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-481
dc.description.abstractMagnetopause flux ropes (FRs) play a crucial role in the transport of energy and plasma from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere. Once formed by multiple X-line reconnection, the FRs move poleward, during which they can coalesce with each other through a re-reconnection process. The poleward moving FRs eventually coalesce into the cusp regions, through another re-reconnection process. In this paper, using three-dimensional (3-D) global hybrid simulations, we study the two re-reconnection processes of magnetopause FRs by examining the topological changes of magnetic field lines. These re-reconnection processes are essentially 3-D. Two FRs coalesce with each other and form two new FRs (instead of one new FR in the two-dimensional regime). When FRs move close to the cusp region, their field lines can reconnect with the cusp field lines so that the FRs can break into two shorter ones. The two re-reconnection processes increase the plasma energy and the magnetic flux connected to the Earth, which favors particle and energy transport toward the Earth's magnetosphere.en_US
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dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Geophysical Research: Space Physicsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries2169-9380en_US
dc.rights©American Geophysical Union 2021. This is this the version of record co-published by the American Geophysical Union and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. It is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Item should be cited as: Guo, J., Lu, S., Lu, Q., Lin, Y., Wang, X., Huang, K., ... & Wang, S. (2021). Re‐Reconnection Processes of Magnetopause Flux Ropes: Three‐Dimensional Global Hybrid Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126(6), e2021JA029388.en_US
dc.titleRe-Reconnection Processes of Magnetopause Flux Ropes: Three-Dimensional Global Hybrid Simulationsen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume126en_US
dc.citation.issue6en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0003-3041-2682en_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-9950-1029en_US

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