@article{Fuselier and Petrinec and Sawyer and Mukherjee and Masters:2020:10.1029/2020JA027895,
author = {Fuselier and Petrinec and Sawyer and Mukherjee and Masters, A},
doi = {10.1029/2020JA027895},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics},
pages = {1--16},
title = {Suppression of magnetic reconnection at Saturn’s low-latitude magnetopause},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020JA027895},
volume = {125},
year = {2020}
}

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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Observations from the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer/Electron Spectrometer (CAPS/ELS) are used in an indepth investigation of the occurrence and location of reconnection at Saturn's magnetopause. Heated, streaming electrons parallel and/or antiparallel to the magnetic field in the magnetosheath adjacent to the magnetopause indicate that reconnection is occurring somewhere on the boundary. In these instances, the Cassini spacecraft is connected to open magnetic field lines that thread the magnetopause boundary. A survey of 99 crossings with sufficient pitch angle coverage from CAPS/ELS indicates that 65% of the crossings had this evidence of reconnection. Specific crossings from this survey are used to demonstrate that there are times when reconnection at Saturn's lowlatitude magnetopause may be suppressed.
AU  - Fuselier
AU  - Petrinec
AU  - Sawyer
AU  - Mukherjee
AU  - Masters,A
DO  - 10.1029/2020JA027895
EP  - 16
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 2169-9380
SP  - 1
TI  - Suppression of magnetic reconnection at Saturn’s low-latitude magnetopause
T2  - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020JA027895
UR  - https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020JA027895
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/79380
VL  - 125
ER  - 

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