TY - JOUR JF - Physical Review Letters A1 - Graham, DB A1 - Khotyaintsev, YV A1 - Vaivads, A A1 - André, M A1 - Fazakerley, AN VL - 112 N1 - © 2014 American Physical Society IS - 21 N2 - During a magnetopause crossing near the subsolar point Cluster observes the ion diffusion region of antiparallel magnetic reconnection. The reconnecting plasmas are asymmetric, differing in magnetic field strength, density, and temperature. Spatial changes in the electron distributions in the diffusion region are resolved and investigated in detail. Heating of magnetosheath electrons parallel to the magnetic field is observed. This heating is shown to be consistent with trapping of magnetosheath electrons by parallel electric fields. ID - discovery1464379 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.215004 SN - 0031-9007 Y1 - 2014/05/28/ TI - Electron Dynamics in the Diffusion Region of an Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection AV - public ER -