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Time evolution of electron temperature in nose and tail reconnection regions. Dipolar YMSO = 0 cut of simulations RunN (top panels) and RunS (bottom panels) at different times (time advancing from left to right). We show the color map of the electron temperature Te = (2T⊥, e + T∥, e)/3 in units of [eV] in logarithmic scale. On top of that, we superpose the in-plane magnetic field lines (gray solid lines). The white region around the planet corresponds to grid cells with a number of macro-particles too small to reliably compute the value of Te.

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