Acceleration of relativistic electrons up to 500 keV in Earth’s plasma sheet by magnetic reconnection and flux ropes

Wei-Jie Sun1, Drew L. Turner2, James A Slavin3, Kevin James Genestreti4 and Ian Cohen2, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, Durham, United States