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

Table 2

Summary of all the cases studied in this paper. 𝐵_𝑀𝑜: guide field, 𝑉_𝑀𝑆𝐻: velocity jump across the magnetopause, 𝑉_{𝑋𝐿,𝑠𝑖𝑚}: the 𝑋-line speed measured in the simulation frame, 𝑉_{𝑖𝐿,𝑋𝐿}: the 𝐿-component of the ion flow at the 𝑋-line, 𝑉_{𝑒𝐿,𝑋𝐿}: the 𝐿-component of the electron flow at the 𝑋-line, and 𝑉_{𝑋𝐿,𝑀𝑆𝑃}: the X-line speed in the magnetosphere-rest frame.

𝐵𝑀𝑜	𝑉MSH	𝑉XL,sim	𝑉iL,XL	𝑉eL,XL	𝑉XL,MSP	𝑉XL,MSP/ 𝑉MSH
−0.5	0	0.15	0.051	1	0.15	N/A
−0.5	0.5	0.28	0.26	1.21	0.53	1.06
−0.5	1	0.37	0.42	1.3	0.87	0.87
0	1	0.18	0.18	0.4	0.68	0.68
0	2	0.32	0.31	0.52	1.32	0.66
0.5	0	−0.15	−0.051	−1	−0.15	N/A
0.5	0.2	−0.088	0.047	−0.97	0.012	0.06
0.5	0.4	−0.027	0.1	−0.84	0.17	0.43
0.5	0.5	0.0047	0.14	−0.78	0.25	0.51
0.5	0.7	0.072	0.22	−0.69	0.42	0.6
0.5	1	0.14	0.35	−0.5	0.64	0.64