Generation of Ion-Scale Magnetic Flux Ropes from Electron-Scale Magnetopause Current Sheet

Hiroshi Hasegawa1, Richard Eugene Denton2, Kyoung-Joo Hwang3, Kyunghwan Dokgo3, Takuma K. M. Nakamura4,5 and James Burch3, (1)Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, Department of Solar System Sciences, Sagamihara, Japan, (2)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)University of Graz, Institute of Physics, Graz, Austria, (5)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria