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Global Environmental Constraints on Magnetic Reconnection at the Magnetopause From In Situ Measurements

hal.structure.identifierLaboratoire de Physique des Plasmas [LPP]
dc.contributor.authorMICHOTTE DE WELLE, B.
hal.structure.identifierLaboratoire de Physique des Plasmas [LPP]
dc.contributor.authorAUNAI, N.
hal.structure.identifierLaboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] [LAB]
dc.contributor.authorLAVRAUD, B.
hal.structure.identifierInstitut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie [IRAP]
dc.contributor.authorGÉNOT, V.
hal.structure.identifierDPHY, ONERA, Université de Toulouse [Toulouse]
dc.contributor.authorNGUYEN, G.
hal.structure.identifierLaboratoire de Physique des Plasmas [LPP]
dc.contributor.authorGHISALBERTI, A.
hal.structure.identifierLaboratoire de Physique des Plasmas [LPP]
dc.contributor.authorSMETS, R.
dc.contributor.authorJEANDET, A.
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.issn2169-9380
dc.description.abstractEnProgress in locating the X‐line on the magnetopause beyond the atypical due south interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) condition is hampered by the fact that the global plasma and field spatial distributions constraining where reconnection could develop on the magnetopause are poorly known. This work presents global maps of the magnetic shear, current density and reconnection rate, on the global dayside magnetopause, reconstructed from two decades of measurements from Cluster, Double Star, THEMIS and MMS missions. These maps, generated for various IMF and dipole tilt angles, offer a unique comparison point for models and observations. The magnetic shear obtained from vacuum magnetostatic draping is shown to be inconsistent with observed shear maps for IMF cone angles in 12.5° ± 2.5° ≤ | θ co | ≤ 45° ± 5°. Modeled maximum magnetic shear lines fail to incline toward the equator as the IMF clock angle increases, in contrast to those from observations and MHD models. Reconnection rate and current density maps are closer together than they are from the shear maps, but this similarity vanishes for increasingly radial IMF orientations. The X‐lines maximizing the magnetic shear are the only ones to sharply turns toward and follow the anti‐parallel ridge at high latitude. We show the behavior of X‐lines with varying IMF clock and dipole tilt angles to be different as the IMF cone angle varies. Finally, we discuss a fundamental disagreement between X‐lines maximizing a given quantity on the magnetopause and predictions of local X‐line orientations.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Union/Wiley
dc.subject.enSpace plasmas
dc.subject.enMagnetic reconnection
dc.subject.enMagnetopause
dc.title.enGlobal Environmental Constraints on Magnetic Reconnection at the Magnetopause From In Situ Measurements
dc.typeArticle de revue
dc.identifier.doi10.1029/2023JA032098
dc.subject.halPlanète et Univers [physics]/Sciences de la Terre/Géophysique [physics.geo-ph]
dc.subject.halPhysique [physics]/Physique [physics]/Physique de l'espace [physics.space-ph]
bordeaux.journalJournal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
bordeaux.pagee2023JA032098
bordeaux.volume129
bordeaux.issue8
bordeaux.peerReviewedoui
hal.identifierhal-04780931
hal.version1
hal.popularnon
hal.audienceInternationale
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-04780931v1
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