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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
Volume 109, Issue A5, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010031
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On 11 December 1994 the Geotail spacecraft encountered an active reconnection diffusion region around the X line in the Earth's magnetotail. Three interesting features were observed. One is quadrupole pattern of the out-of-plane B-y magnetic field component during the passage of magnetic islands and the crossing of the neutral sheet. The second is a direction reversal of the electron beams in the vicinity of the separatrix of the magnetic topology of reconnection. The third is a clear plasma flow reversal. By combining the observations of plasma, magnetic field, particles, and waves, this report may provide evidence of multiple X lines collisionless reconnection in the magnetotail at the microscopic level.
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