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Alho, M., Battarbee, M., Pfau‐Kempf, Y., Khotyaintsev, Y., Nakamura, R., Cozzani, G., … Palmroth, M. (2022). Electron Signatures of Reconnection in a Global eVlasiator Simulation. Geophysical Research Letters.
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Alho, M., M. Battarbee, Y. Pfau‐Kempf, Y. Khotyaintsev, R. Nakamura, G. Cozzani, U. Ganse, et al. “Electron Signatures of Reconnection in a Global EVlasiator Simulation.” Geophysical Research Letters (2022).
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Alho, M., et al. “Electron Signatures of Reconnection in a Global EVlasiator Simulation.” Geophysical Research Letters, 2022.
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@article{m2022a,
title = {Electron Signatures of Reconnection in a Global eVlasiator Simulation},
year = {2022},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
author = {Alho, M. and Battarbee, M. and Pfau‐Kempf, Y. and Khotyaintsev, Y. and Nakamura, R. and Cozzani, G. and Ganse, U. and Turc, L. and Johlander, A. and Horaites, K. and Tarvus, V. and Zhou, H. and Grandin, M. and Dubart, M. and Papadakis, K. and Suni, J. and George, H. and Bussov, M. and Palmroth, M.}
}
Geospace plasma simulations have progressed toward more realistic descriptions of the solar wind–magnetosphere interaction from magnetohydrodynamic to hybrid ion‐kinetic, such as the state‐of‐the‐art Vlasiator model. Despite computational advances, electron scales have been out of reach in a global setting. eVlasiator, a novel Vlasiator submodule, shows for the first time how electromagnetic fields driven by global hybrid‐ion kinetics influence electrons, resulting in kinetic signatures. We analyze simulated electron distributions associated with reconnection sites and compare them with Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft observations. Comparison with MMS shows that key electron features, such as reconnection inflows, heated outflows, flat‐top distributions, and bidirectional streaming, are in remarkable agreement. Thus, we show that many reconnection‐related features can be reproduced despite strongly truncated electron physics and an ion‐scale spatial resolution. Ion‐scale dynamics and ion‐driven magnetic fields are shown to be significantly responsible for the environment that produces electron dynamics observed by spacecraft in near‐Earth plasmas.