ESA Science & Technology - Fingerprints of collisionless reconnection at the separator, I, Ambipolar-Hall signatures

Publication date: 16 October 2002

Authors: Scudder, J.D. et al.

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 107
Issue: A10
Year: 2002

Copyright: American Geophysical Union

Plasma, electric, and magnetic field data on the Polar spacecraft have been analyzed for the 29 May 1996 magnetopause traversal searching for evidence of in situ reconnection and traversal of the separator. In this paper we confine our analysis to model-free observations and intrasensor coherence of detection of the environs of the separator.