Focused Science Topic:
Fast Reconnection Onset

Team Publications

Pyakurel, P.S., Phan, T.D., Drake, J.F., Shay, M.A., Øieroset, M., Haggerty, C.C., Stawarz, J., Burch, J.L., Ergun, R.E., Gershman, D.J. and Giles, B.L., 2023. On the short-scale spatial variability of electron inflows in electron-only magnetic reconnection in the turbulent magnetosheath observed by MMS. The Astrophysical Journal, 948, 20.

Wang, S., Zou, Y., Hu, Q., Shi, X. and Hasegawa, H., 2024. Characterization of magnetic flux contents for two flux transfer events from both in situ and ionospheric observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2023JA032088.

Jing, J., Lee, J., Mancuso, M., Li, Q., Liu, N., Inoue, S., Xu, Y., and Wang, H., 2024. Magnetic Eruption from a Three-ribbon Flare, The Astrophysical Journal, 2024, in press.

Jing, J., Liu, N., Lee, J., Xu, Y., Cao, W. and Wang, H., 2023. Characterizing 3D Magnetic Structures in Sunspot Light Bridges. The Astrophysical Journal, 952.

Fuselier, S.A., Petrinec, S.M., Reiff, P.H., Birn, J., Baker, D.N., Cohen, I.J., Nakamura, R., Sitnov, M.I., Stephens, G.K., Hwang, J. and Lavraud, B., 2024. Global-Scale Processes and Effects of Magnetic Reconnection on the Geospace Environment. Space Sci Rev, 220(4), 34.

Hasegawa, H., Argall, M.R., Aunai, N., Bandyopadhyay, R., Bessho, N., Cohen, I.J., Denton, R.E., Dorelli, J.C., Egedal, J., Fuselier, S.A. and Garnier, P., Genot, V., Graham, D.B., Hwang, K.J., Khotyaintsev, Y.V., Korovinskiy, D.B., Lavraud, B., Lenouvel, Q., Li, T.C., Liu, Y.-H., Michotte de Welle, B., Nakamura, T.K.M., Payne, D.S., Petrinec, S.M., Qi, Y., Rager, A.C., Reiff, P.H., Schroeder, J.M., Shuster, J.R., Sitnov, M.I., Stephens, G.K., Swisdak, M., Tian, A.M., Torbert, R.B., Trattner, K.J., Zenitani, S., 2024. Advanced methods for analyzing in-situ observations of magnetic reconnection. Space Sci Rev, in press

Shi, X., Stephens, G.K., Artemyev, A.V., Sitnov, M.I. and Angelopoulos, V., 2024. Picturing global substorm dynamics in the magnetotail using low-altitude ELFIN measurements and data mining-based magnetic field reconstructions. Space Weather, resubmitted.

Leake, J.A., Daldorff, L.K. and Klimchuk, J.A., 2024. The Onset of Magnetic Reconnection in Dynamically Evolving Coronal Current Sheets. The Astrophysical Journal, in press

Wang, R., Vasko, I.Y., Phan, T.D. and Mozer, F.S., 2024. Solar wind current sheets: MVA inaccuracy and recommended single‐spacecraft methodology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, 2.

Vasko, I.Y., Alimov, K., Phan, T.D., Mozer, F.S. and Artemyev, A.V., 2024. Kinetic‐scale current sheets in the solar wind at 5 AU. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, 6.

Shen, Y., Artemyev, A., Angelopoulos, V., Liu, T.Z. and Vasko, I., 2024. Comparing Plasma Anisotropy Associated with Solar Wind Discontinuities and Alfvénic Fluctuations. The Astrophysical Journal, 961(1), 41.

Kamaletdinov, S.R., Artemyev, A.V., Runov, A. and Angelopoulos, V., 2024. Thin current sheets in the magnetotail at lunar distances: statistics of ARTEMIS observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2023JA032130.

An, X., Artemyev, A., Angelopoulos, V., Runov, A. and Kamaletdinov, S., 2023. Kinetic equilibrium of two-dimensional force-free current sheets. The Astrophysical Journal, 952, 36.

Sergeev, V.A., Kubyshkina, M.V., Semenov, V.S., Artemyev, A., Angelopoulos, V., & Runov, A., 2023. Unusual magnetospheric dynamics during intense substorm initiated by strong magnetospheric compression. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2023JA031536.

Shen, Y., Artemyev, A. V., Runov, A., Angelopoulos, V., Liu, J., Zhang, X.-J., et al., 2023. Energetic electron flux dropouts measured by ELFIN in the ionospheric projection of the plasma sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2023JA031631.

Arencibia, M., Cassak, P.A., Shay, M.A., Qiu, J., Petrinec, S.M., & Liang, H., 2023. Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection spreading in current sheets of non-uniform thickness. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA030999.

Qiu, J., Alaoui, M., Antiochos, S.K., Dahlin, J.T., Swisdak, M., Drake, J.F., Robison, A., DeVore, C.R. and Uritsky, V.M., 2023. The Role of Magnetic Shear in Reconnection-Driven Flare Energy Release. The Astrophysical Journal, 955, 34.

Ma, H., Drake, J.F. and Swisdak, M., 2023. Wave generation and energetic electron scattering in solar flares. The Astrophysical Journal, 954, 21.

Klimchuk, J.A., Leake, J.E., Daldorff, L.K. and Johnston, C.D., 2023. The thickness of current sheets and implications for coronal heating. Frontiers in Physics, 11, 1198194.

Øieroset, M., Phan, T.D., Oka, M., Drake, J.F., Fuselier, S.A., Gershman, D.J., Maheshwari, K., Giles, B.L., Zhang, Q., Guo, F. and Burch, J.L., 2023. Scaling of Magnetic Reconnection Electron Bulk Heating in the High-Alfvén-speed and Low-β Regime of Earth’s Magnetotail. The Astrophysical Journal, 954, 118.

Fargette, N., Lavraud, B., Rouillard, A.P., Houdayer, P.S., Phan, T.D., Øieroset, M., Eastwood, J.P., Nicolaou, G., Fedorov, A., Louarn, P. and Owen, C.J., 2023. Clustering of magnetic reconnection exhausts in the solar wind: An automated detection study. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 674, A98.

Cannon, B., Jing, J., Li, Q., Liu, N., Lee, J., Cao, W. and Wang, H., 2023. Magnetic reconnection rate in the M6. 5 solar flare on 2015 June 22. The Astrophysical Journal950.

Jing, J., Liu, N., Lee, J., Xu, Y., Cao, W. and Wang, H., 2023. Characterizing 3D Magnetic Structures in Sunspot Light Bridges. The Astrophysical Journal, 952.

Phan, T.D., Verniero, J.L., Larson, D., Lavraud, B., Drake, J.F., Øieroset, M., Eastwood, J.P., Bale, S.D., Livi, R., Halekas, J.S. and Whittlesey, P.L., 2022. Parker Solar Probe Observations of Solar Wind Energetic Proton Beams Produced by Magnetic Reconnection in the Near‐Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet. Geophysical research letters, 49(9), e2021GL096986.

Pyakurel, P.S., Phan, T.D., Drake, J.F., Shay, M.A., Øieroset, M., Haggerty, C.C., Stawarz, J., Burch, J.L., Ergun, R.E., Gershman, D.J. and Giles, B.L., 2023. On the short-scale spatial variability of electron inflows in electron-only magnetic reconnection in the turbulent magnetosheath observed by MMS. The Astrophysical Journal, 948, 20.

S. Adhikari, M. A. Shay, T. N. Parashar, P. Sharma Pyakurel, W. H. Matthaeus, D. Godzieba, J. E. Stawarz, J. P. Eastwood, and J. T. Dahlin, 2020. Reconnection from a turbulence perspective. Physics of Plasmas, 042305.

Leake, J. E., Daldorff, L. K. S., Klimchuk, J. A., 2020. The Onset of 3D Magnetic Reconnection and Heating in the Solar Corona. The Astrophysical Journal, 891.

Phan, T. D., B. Lavraud, J. Halekas, M. Oiersoset, J. F. Drake, et al., 2021. Prevalence of Magnetic Reconnection in the near-Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 650, A13.

Vasko, I., K. Alimov, T. D. Phan, S.D. Bale, F.S. Mozer, and A.V. Artemyev, 2021. Kinetic-scale current sheets in the solar wind at 1 AU: Properties and the necessary condition for reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, submitted.

Zou, Y., Walsh, B.M., Shi, X., Lyons, L., Liu, J., Angelopoulos, V., Ruohoniemi, J.M., Coster, A.J. and Henderson, M.G., 2021. Geospace plume and its impact on dayside magnetopause reconnection rate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, e2021JA029117.

Chen, Y., Hu, Q., Zhao, L., Kasper, J.C. and Huang, J., 2021. Small-scale Magnetic Flux Ropes with Field-aligned Flows via the PSP In Situ Observations. The Astrophysical Journal, 914(2), 108.

Runov, A., Angelopoulos, V., Artemyev, A.V., Weygand, J.M., Lu, S., Lin, Y. and Zhang, X.J., 2021. Global and local processes of thin current sheet formation during substorm growth phase. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 105671.

Sitnov, M.I., Motoba, T. and Swisdak, M., 2021. Multiscale nature of the magnetotail reconnection onset. Geophysical Research Letters, e2021GL093065.

Sitnov, M., Stephens, G., Motoba, T. and Swisdak, M., 2021. Data Mining Reconstruction of Magnetotail Reconnection and Implications for Its First-Principle Modeling. Frontiers in Physics, 9, 90.

Lee, J., White, S.M., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Ning, H., Li, B. and Masuda, S., 2020. Microwave Study of a Solar Circular Ribbon Flare. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 901(1), L10.