Physics of Magnetopause Reconnection: A Study of the Combined Effects of Density Asymmetry, Velocity Shear, and Guide Field
Figure 11
The cuts along the -axis at the -line of (a) , (b) , (d) , and (d) . The -line is filled with the magnetosheath ions having the small positive -component velocity. At the same time, the negative -component of the current density implied by at the -line is sustained by the fast electron flow in the positive- direction.
