Astrophysical plasmas have the remarkable ability to preserve magnetic topology, which
inevitably gives rise to the accumulation of magnetic energy within stressed regions …

The complex nonlinear dynamical phenomenon described as turbulence, is known to have
a great impact on fluids, magnetohydrodynamic systems, and on plasmas. This paper …

Magnetotail reconnection plays a crucial role in explosive energy conversion in geospace.
Because of the lack of in-situ spacecraft observations, the onset mechanism of magnetotail …

Turbulent plasmas generate a multitude of thin current structures that can be sites for
magnetic reconnection. The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has recently …

Magnetic reconnection underlies the physical mechanism of explosive phenomena in the
solar atmosphere and planetary magnetospheres, where plasma is usually collisionless. In …

Standard magnetic reconnection couples with both electron‐and ion dynamics. Recently, a
new type of magnetic reconnection, electron‐only reconnection without the coupling of ion …

Turbulent magnetic reconnection in a quasi-parallel shock under parameters relevant to the
Earth's bow shock is investigated by means of a two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation …

Magnetic reconnection rapidly converts magnetic energy into some combination of plasma
flow energy, thermal energy and non-thermal energetic particles. Various reconnection …

We have conducted a comprehensive survey of burst mode observations of Earth's bow
shock by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to identify and characterize current sheets …

Non-Maxwellian electron velocity distribution functions composed of a warm bulk population
and a cold beam are directly measured during electron-only reconnection with a strong out …