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Dayside magnetopause reconnection and flux transfer events under radial interplanetary magnetic field (IMF): BepiColombo Earth-flyby observations
Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
James A. Slavin
Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Rumi Nakamura
Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstraße 6, 8042 Graz, Austria
Daniel Heyner
Institut für Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Karlheinz J. Trattner
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Johannes Z. D. Mieth
Institut für Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Jiutong Zhao
School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Qiu-Gang Zong
School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Sae Aizawa
Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, CNRS-UPS-CNES, Toulouse, France
Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Nicolas Andre
Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, CNRS-UPS-CNES, Toulouse, France
Yoshifumi Saito
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan
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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.
This paper presents observations of FTE-type flux ropes on the dayside during BepiColombo's...
