Fig. 1: Overview of MMS3 observations. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Overview of MMS3 observations.

From: Direct evidence of secondary reconnection inside filamentary currents of magnetic flux ropes during magnetic reconnection

Fig. 1

The data are presented in the geocentric solar magnetospheric (GSM) coordinates. The vertical dashed lines mark the leading and trailing edges of the flux ropes. a, b The ion and electron energy-time spectrograms of differential energy fluxes (color scale, in units of keV cm−2 s−1 sr−1 keV−1). c The magnitude and components of the magnetic field. d Electron density. e Ion velocity. f Electron velocity. g Electron temperature. h Schematic showing the varied magnetic field pulses and electron vortices in magnetic flux ropes. Black lines with arrows represent magnetic field lines, red arrows represent electron flows, and green curve with an arrow represents MMS trajectory. i, j A simplified schematic of reconnection in varied magnetic field pulses. The oppositely directed electron outflows were observed.

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