“…In particular, for magnetic reconnection regions in the magnetotail, strongly anisotropic electron velocity distributions with p ‖ > p ⊥ are found in inflow regions (Øieroset et al, 2002), while triangular distributions with accelerated electrons are found within the electron diffusion region and close to the x-point during antiparallel reconnection (Torbert et al, 2018). The formation of these distributions can be explained by electron trapping in the inflow (Egedal et al, 2013), while in the electron diffusion region, the meandering electron orbits in the magnetic field reversal explains the striated and counterstreaming populations (Bessho et al, 2014(Bessho et al, , 2018Fujimoto & Sydora, 2009;Ng et al, 2011Ng et al, , 2012.…”