Velocity shear driven instability and its effect on magnetic reconnection: MMS observations compared with PIC simulation results
Kyoung-Joo Hwang1, Eunjin Choi1, David G Sibeck2, Barbara L Giles3, Melvin Goldstein1, Craig J Pollock4, Robert Ergun5, Daniel J Gershman6, John Dorelli1, Levon A Avanov1, William R Paterson1, James L Burch7, Steven J Schwartz8, Robert J Strangeway9 and Roy B Torbert10, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmsopheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (8)Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, (9)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Physics Department, Durham, NH, United States
