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Self-consistent Seeding of the Interchange Instability in Dipolarization Fronts

Giovanni Lapenta, Lapo Bettarini

We report a 3D magnetohydrodynamics simulation that studies the formation of dipolarization fronts during magnetotail reconnection. The crucial new feature uncovered in the present…