MMS Observations of Reconnection at Dayside Magnetopause Crossings During Transitions of the Solar Wind to Sub-Alfvenic Flow

Charles J Farrugia1, NoƩ Lugaz1, Love Alm2, Bernard John Vasquez3, Matthew R Argall4, Harald Kucharek5, Hiroshi Matsui3, Roy B Torbert6, Benoit Lavraud7, Olivier Le Contel8, Jason R Shuster9, James L Burch6, Yuri V Khotyaintsev10, Barbara L Giles9, Stephen A Fuselier6, Daniel J Gershman9, James Webster11, Jonathan P Eastwood12, Ian J Cohen13, John C Dorelli14, Per-Arne Lindqvist2, Robert J Strangeway15, Christopher T Russell16, Goran T Marklund17, Kristoff W Paulson1, Steven Petrinec18, Tai Phan19 and Craig Pollock20, (1)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (2)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (7)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (8)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC, Paris, France, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (10)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (11)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, (13)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (15)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (16)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (17)wedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (18)Lockheed Martin Corporation, Belmont, United States, (19)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (20)West Virginia University, Greenbelt, United States