Articles | Volume 42, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-145-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-42-145-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Finding reconnection lines and flux rope axes via local coordinates in global ion-kinetic magnetospheric simulations
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Giulia Cozzani
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Ivan Zaitsev
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Fasil Tesema Kebede
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Urs Ganse
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Markus Battarbee
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Maarja Bussov
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Maxime Dubart
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Sanni Hoilijoki
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Leo Kotipalo
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Konstantinos Papadakis
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Yann Pfau-Kempf
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Jonas Suni
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Vertti Tarvus
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Abiyot Workayehu
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Hongyang Zhou
Department of Astronomy, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Minna Palmroth
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Data sets
Vlasiator 6D 'EGI' tail current sheet data series Minna Palmroth https://doi.org/10.23729/72EFF3EF-C84B-43B8-94D1-0A8B49C7C56D
Model code and software
Vlasiator Yann Pfau-Kempf et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3640593
Analysator Markus Battarbee et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4462514
Short summary
Magnetic reconnection is one of the main processes for energy conversion and plasma transport in space plasma physics, associated with plasma entry into the magnetosphere of Earth and Earth’s substorm cycle. Global modelling of these plasma processes enables us to understand the magnetospheric system in detail. However, finding sites of active reconnection from large simulation datasets can be challenging, and this paper develops tools to find magnetic topologies related to reconnection.
Magnetic reconnection is one of the main processes for energy conversion and plasma transport in...