Articles | Volume 40, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-217-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-40-217-2022
Regular paper
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22 Apr 2022
Regular paper |  | 22 Apr 2022

Dayside magnetopause reconnection and flux transfer events under radial interplanetary magnetic field (IMF): BepiColombo Earth-flyby observations

Weijie Sun, James A. Slavin, Rumi Nakamura, Daniel Heyner, Karlheinz J. Trattner, Johannes Z. D. Mieth, Jiutong Zhao, Qiu-Gang Zong, Sae Aizawa, Nicolas Andre, and Yoshifumi Saito

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on angeo-2021-58', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Nov 2021
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Wei-Jie Sun, 17 Jan 2022
  • RC2: 'Comment on angeo-2021-58', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Jan 2022
  • RC3: 'Comment on angeo-2021-58', Anonymous Referee #3, 19 Jan 2022

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (16 Feb 2022) by Anna Milillo
AR by Weijie Sun on behalf of the Authors (16 Feb 2022)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (16 Feb 2022) by Anna Milillo
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (17 Feb 2022)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (17 Mar 2022)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (18 Mar 2022) by Anna Milillo
AR by Weijie Sun on behalf of the Authors (22 Mar 2022)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (25 Mar 2022) by Anna Milillo
AR by Weijie Sun on behalf of the Authors (25 Mar 2022)
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Short summary
This paper presents observations of FTE-type flux ropes on the dayside during BepiColombo's Earth flyby. FTE-type flux ropes are a well-known feature of magnetic reconnection on the magnetopause, and they can be used to constrain the location of reconnection X-lines. Our study suggests that the magnetopause X-line passed BepiColombo from the north as it traversed the magnetopause. Moreover, our results also strongly support coalescence creating larger flux ropes by combining smaller ones.