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

Table 1

Summary of the results from the simpler cases. 𝐵_𝑀𝑜: guide field, 𝑉_𝑀𝑆𝐻: velocity jump across the magnetopause, 𝑉_{𝑋𝐿,𝑠𝑖𝑚}: the 𝑋-line speed measured in the simulation frame.

𝐵𝑀𝑜	𝑉MSH	𝑉XL,sim
−0.5	0	+0.15
+0.5	0	−0.15
0	1	+0.18