Focused Science Topic:
Fast Reconnection Onset

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What are the onset conditions of fast magnetic reconnection? See the abstract link.



FST#2: Fast Magnetic Reconnection Onset Team Meeting



Our next team meeting was held in Bldg 200 on APL South campus, 26 - 28 (Tues - Thurs) Sep 2023. Please see info about the location, lodging and transportation on the APL website. The agenda is now available at this link, and the online options are also tentatively available.



Interchange reconnection as the source of the fast solar wind within coronal holes

Authors: S. D. Bale, J. F. Drake, M. D. McManus, M. I. Desai, S. T. Badman, D. E. Larson, M. Swisdak, T. S. Horbury, N. E. Raouafi, T. Phan, M. Velli, D. J. McComas, C. M. S. Cohen, D. Mitchell, O. Panasenco & J. C. Kasper. See Nature.

Past meeting for Fast Magnetic Reconnection Onset Team

The FST#2 Team Meeting was held in Huntsville, AL, during 12 - 14 October 2022 (see agenda for more details).

Eugene Parker Lecture

Dr. James Klimchuk to deliver the 2021 Eugene Parker Lecture. Link: The 2021 Eugene Parker Lecture I

TEAM HIGHLIGHTS



Selected Publications





  • Overview of the geospace plume event on January 17, 2013. From top to bottom (a–f) shows the SYM-H index, interplanetary magnetic field in GSM coordinates, solar wind velocity component along GSM X, solar wind proton density, magnetosonic Mach number, and total electron content (TEC) at 10–14 h MLT. TOI, tongue of ionization (Zou et al. 2021).





  • The 2D cross-section map for the event that flux rope encloses magnetic switchback (from triangle to cross) on Nov 2, 2018, via the PSP observation. This spike interval appears to be located inside a current sheet, possibly enclosing an X-point configuration prone to the magnetic reconnection (Chen et al. 2021).





  • 2D distributions (y = 2.5di) of electric currents and the electrostatic field at ωi0t = 5.8 in Run 1 guided by data mining reconstructions. (a)–(b) The distribution of the y-component of the current density with overplotted magnetic field lines in the noon-midnight meridional plane in the growth phase of the February 13, 2008 substorm (adapted from Sitnov, Stephens, et al., 2019) and the equatorial magnetic field distribution with gray dots showing the projections of the spacecraft coordinates for nearest neighbors selected at this moment (2:30 UT)... (see Sitnov et al. 2021 for more information).

Kickoff Meeting

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The first team meeting for FST#2 “Fast Reconnection Onset” is held on Monday, November 30th, 2020, 1-2pm Central time (11am-12pm Pacific and 2-3pm Eastern). Information about the NASA LWS science program solicitation, NNH19ZDA001N-LWS,and the final selections is available to the public.

UAH Team

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"Magnetic Reconnection Rate and its Implications for Fast Reconnection Onset in Solar Flares and Magnetopause" - PI: Qiang Hu; CoIs: Haoming Liang, Ying Zou, Chang Liu, and Ju Jing (New Jersey Institute of Technology); Post-Docs: Avijeet Prasad, and Yu Chen.

LWS FST Team Site



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Sponsored by NASA, and hosted by the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.