Vlasiator Hybrid-Vlasov Simulations and MMS Observations of Flux Transfer Events: a Comparative Analysis

Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti1, Minna Palmroth2, James A Slavin3, Markus Batttarbee2, Urs Ganse2, Maxime Grandin2, Guan Le4 and Daniel J Gershman5, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, Helsinki, Finland, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States