Hybrid Simulations of Reconnecting Current Sheet Generation and Decay at and Downstream of Earth’s Bow Shock

Imogen Gingell1, Steven J Schwartz2, Harald Kucharek3, Laura J Fryer1, Charles J Farrugia4 and Karlheinz J Trattner5, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (5)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States