SM022-04
Polynomial reconstruction of the magnetic field in the vicinity of the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) spacecraft: New results

Thursday, 10 December 2020: 07:09
Virtual
Richard Eugene Denton1, Yi-Hsin Liu2, Roy B Torbert3, Hiroshi Hasegawa4, Bengt Sonnerup2 and Kevin James Genestreti5, (1)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan, (5)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Abstract:
For the purposes of understanding magnetic reconnection and other phenomena observed by the MMS spacecraft, it is useful to visualize the magnetic field structure in the vicinity of the spacecraft, and to be able to calculate the relative velocity between that structure and the spacecraft. Recently, a new polynomial reconstruction technique has been developed to accomplish these goals. Here, we explain new developments in the method and test these developments using data from virtual spacecraft moving through the magnetic field of a particle in cell simulation.
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