Physics of Magnetopause Reconnection: A Study of the Combined Effects of Density Asymmetry, Velocity Shear, and Guide Field

Figure 12

The cuts along the 𝑁-axis of the high-density structure at 𝐿=4. In the same format as Figure 5 except that ion and electron flows are now shown in Panels (c) and (d), respectively. The high-density peak (at 𝑁=0.5) is between the two density dips (at 𝑁=−0.85 and 1.27) and is on the magnetosheath side of the region showing 𝐸_𝑁>0.