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The first phase of the mission fo-cused on the magnetopause, which is characterized by largeasymmetries in conditions between the sheath and magne-tospheric plasmas. , 2014] has enabled detailed multi-pointobservations of this process with instruments that resolveplasma kinetic scales. The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mis-sion [īurch et al. Magnetic reconnection transports plasma and energyfrom the shocked solar wind of the magnetosheath acrossthe magnetopause into Earth’s magnetosphere [ In the3D simulation (and not the 2D simulation), the electrontemperature parallel to the magnetic field within the mix-ing layer is significantly higher than its upstream value inagreement with the MMS observations. The transport of particles across the separatrix in3D is attributed to lower-hybrid drift turbulence excited atthe steep density gradient near the magnetopause. The mixing and heating are strongly enhancedacross the magnetospheric separatrix compared to a 2D sim-ulation. ◦ Strong parallel electron heating near the current layer,as observed by MMS, is reproduced only in 3D.Electron heating and mixing during asymmetric recon-nection are studied with a 3D kinetic simulation thatmatches plasma parameters from Magnetospheric Multiscale(MMS) spacecraft observations of a magnetopause diffu-sion region. ◦ Lower-hybrid range drift turbulence mixes plasmaacross the magnetospheric separatrix.
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◦ A fully kinetic 3D simulation resolves electron mixingand heating at a magnetopause reconnection site forparameters matching MMS observations. ?, XXXX, DOI:10.1002/,Įnhanced Electron Mixing and Heating in 3D AsymmetricReconnection at the Earth’s MagnetopauseĪ.