Research Article
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. : guide field, : velocity jump across the magnetopause, : the -line speed measured in the simulation frame, : the -component of the ion flow at the -line, : the -component of the electron flow at the -line, and : the X-line speed in the magnetosphere-rest frame.
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