Secondary reconnection sites in reconnection-generated flux ropes and reconnection fronts

The primary target of the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission is the electron-scale diffusion layer around reconnection sites. Here we study where these regions are found in full three-dimensio ...

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