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Caption: Figure A2.
1D cuts through the X-point shown in Figure A1 at ﹩t=784{{\rm{\Omega }}}_{c,i}^{-1}﹩. Panels (a) and (c) are taken along the local normal direction ﹩\hat{{\boldsymbol{n}}}﹩ and show, respectively, the reconnecting magnetic field component Bt and the electron out-of-plane current density Jz,e. Panels (b) and (d) are taken along the local exhaust direction ﹩\hat{{\boldsymbol{t}}}﹩ and show the projected electron and ion outflow velocity, δue,out and δui,out, respectively, defined relative to the center-of-mass velocity at the X-point. The coordinate origin marks the X-point position.
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