Electron-scale dynamics of the diffusion region during symmetric magnetic reconnection in space

R. Torbert (1) , J. Burch (2) , T. Phan (3) , M. Hesse (2) , M. Argall (1) , J. Shuster (4) , R. Ergun (5) , L. Alm (6) , R. Nakamura (7) , K. Genestreti (7) , D. Gershman (4) , W. Paterson (4) , D. Turner (8) , I. Cohen (9) , B. Giles (4) , C. Pollock (4) , S. Wang (10) , L.-J. Chen (4) , J. Stawarz (11) , J. Eastwood (11) , K. Hwang , C. Farrugia , I. Dors (1) , H. Vaith (1) , C. Mouikis , A. Ardakani , B. Mauk , S. Fuselier (2) , C. Russell (12) , R. Strangeway (12) , T. Moore , J. Drake , M. Shay , Yuri Khotyaintsev (6) , P.-A. Lindqvist (13) , W. Baumjohann (7) , F. Wilder (5) , N. Ahmadi (5) , J. Dorelli (4) , L. Avanov (4) , M. Oka (3) , D. Baker (5) , J. Fennell (8) , J. Blake (10) , A. Jaynes (14) , O. Le Contel (15) , S. Petrinec , B. Lavraud (16) , Y. Saito (17)

1 SSC - UNH Space Science Center [Durham]
2 SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio]
3 SSL - Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley]
4 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
5 LASP - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder]
6 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Uppsala / Kiruna]
7 IWF - Institut für Weltraumforschung = Space Research institute [Graz]
8 The Aerospace Corporation
9 APL - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD]
10 College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences [College Park]
11 Blackett Laboratory
12 UCLA - University of California [Los Angeles]
13 KTH - Department of Fusion Plasma Physics [Stockholm]
14 University of Iowa [Iowa City]
15 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
16 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
17 ISAS - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

Domaines: Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]

R. Torbert, J. Burch, T. Phan, M. Hesse, M. Argall, et al.. Electron-scale dynamics of the diffusion region during symmetric magnetic reconnection in space. Science, 2018, 362 (6421), pp.1391-1395. ⟨10.1126/science.aat2998⟩. ⟨hal-03088847⟩