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Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Fig. 4 | Geoscience Letters

Fig. 4

From: Current structure and flow pattern on the electron separatrix in reconnection region

Fig. 4

Jump conditions when crossing the electron separatrix. a The azimuthal angle (in degree) of the current flow. The azimuthal angle is calculated in the xy-plane and ranged from 0° to 360°. 0° means the current flows along the +x axis. The angle is counted in the clockwise orientation. b The azimuthal angle of the electron bulk velocity. c The three components of the magnetic field. d The number densities of the ion (black) and electron (red). e The total electron pressure (black), the parallel electron pressure (green), and the perpendicular electron pressure (red). The vertical solid line marks the D ng peak, while the two vertical dashed lines mark the separatrix region where E z is enhanced

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