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## Authors and Affiliations

D. Heyner<fnref n="1" /> Ⓓ H.-U. Auster<fnref n="1" /> K.-H. Fornaçon<fnref n="1" /> C. Carr<fnref n="2" /> I. Richter<fnref n="1" /> J.Z.D. Mieth<fnref n="1" />

P. Kolhey<fnref n="1" /> W. Exner<fnref n="3" /> U. Motschmann<fnref n="3" />,⁴ W. Baumjohann⁵ A. Matsuoka⁶

W. Magnes⁵ G. Berghofer⁵ D. Fischer⁵ F. Plaschke⁵ R. Nakamura⁵ Y. Narita⁵

M. Delva⁵ M. Volwerk⁵ A. Balogh<fnref n="2" /> M. Dougherty<fnref n="2" /> T. Horbury<fnref n="2" /> B. Langlais⁷

M. Mandea⁸ A. Masters<fnref n="2" /> J.S. Oliveira⁹,¹⁰ B. Sánchez-Cano¹¹ J.A. Slavin¹²

S. Vennerstrøm¹³ J. Vogt¹⁴ J. Wicht¹⁵ K.-H. Glassmeier<fnref n="1" />

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D. Heyner

d.heyner@tu-braunschweig.de

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<footnote n="1">¹ Institut für Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany</footnote>

<footnote n="2">² The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK</footnote>

<footnote n="3">³ Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany</footnote>
⁴ DLR Institute for Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany

⁵ Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria

⁶ Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, Kanagawa, Japan

⁷ Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique, Université Nantes, Université d'Angers, CNRS, Nantes, France

⁸ CNES - Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Paris, France

⁹ Science Division, Science and Operations Department, Directorate of Science, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA/ESTEC), Noordwijk, Netherlands

¹⁰ CITEUC, Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

¹¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

¹² Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

¹³ National Space Institute, DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark

¹⁴ Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

¹⁵ Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany