The role of kinetic instabilities and waves in collisionless magnetic reconnection

DB Graham, G Cozzani, YV Khotyaintsev… - Space Science …, 2025 - Springer
Magnetic reconnection converts magnetic field energy into particle energy by breaking and
reconnecting magnetic field lines. Magnetic reconnection is a kinetic process that generates …

Dayside transient phenomena and their impact on the magnetosphere and ionosphere

H Zhang, Q Zong, H Connor, P Delamere… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
Dayside transients, such as hot flow anomalies, foreshock bubbles, magnetosheath jets, flux
transfer events, and surface waves, are frequently observed upstream from the bow shock …

Magnetic reconnection in the space sciences: Past, present, and future

M Hesse, PA Cassak - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic reconnection converts, often explosively, stored magnetic energy to particle
energy in space and in the laboratory. Through processes operating on length scales that …

Magnetic reconnection at the dayside magnetopause: Advances with MMS

JL Burch, TD Phan - Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic reconnection is known to be an important process for coupling solar wind mass
and momentum into the Earth's magnetosphere. Reconnection is initiated in an electron …

The location of magnetic reconnection at Earth's magnetopause

KJ Trattner, SM Petrinec, SA Fuselier - Space Science Reviews, 2021 - Springer
One of the major questions about magnetic reconnection is how specific solar wind and
interplanetary magnetic field conditions influence where reconnection occurs at the Earth's …

Energy conversion by a twisted magnetic structure at magnetopause boundary layer: MMS observations

CX Du, HS Fu, Z Wang, JB Cao… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Earth's magnetopause is an ion‐scale boundary that separates the magnetosphere
from the shocked solar wind. At such boundary, energy‐conversion processes frequently …

Laboratory study of collisionless magnetic reconnection

H Ji, J Yoo, W Fox, M Yamada, M Argall, J Egedal… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
A concise review is given on the past two decades' results from laboratory experiments on
collisionless magnetic reconnection in direct relation with space measurements, especially …

Curlometer technique and applications

MW Dunlop, XC Dong, TY Wang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We review the range of applications and use of the curlometer, initially developed to analyze
Cluster multi‐spacecraft magnetic field data; but more recently adapted to other arrays of …

Direct observation of magnetic reconnection resulting from interaction between magnetic flux rope and magnetic hole in the Earth's magnetosheath

S Wang, R Wang, Q Lu, S Lu… - Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We report in situ observation of magnetic reconnection between magnetic flux rope (MFR)
and magnetic hole (MH) in the magnetosheath by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission …

Coalescence of macroscopic flux ropes at the subsolar magnetopause: Magnetospheric Multiscale observations

M Zhou, J Berchem, RJ Walker, M El-Alaoui, X Deng… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We report unambiguous in situ observation of the coalescence of macroscopic flux ropes by
the magnetospheric multiscale (MMS) mission. Two coalescing flux ropes with sizes of∼ 1 …