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

INTRODUCTION Magnetic reconnection is a physical process occurring in plasmas in which
magnetic energy is explosively converted into heat and kinetic energy. The effects of …

Magnetic reconnection is an energy conversion process that occurs in many astrophysical
contexts including Earth's magnetosphere, where the process can be investigated in situ by …

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 …

Magnetic reconnection in a current sheet is commonly found in astrophysical plasma
environments. If it is often bursty, releasing magnetic free energy explosively, in planetary …

Abstract The Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft encountered an electron diffusion region
(EDR) in a symmetric reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail. The EDR contained a guide …

The role and properties of lower hybrid waves in the ion diffusion region and
magnetospheric inflow region of asymmetric reconnection are investigated using the …

In this paper we use the full armament of the MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale) spacecraft to
study magnetic reconnection in the turbulent magnetosheath downstream of a quasi …

Collisionless space plasma turbulence can generate reconnecting thin current sheets as
suggested by recent results of numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations. The …

Abstract We report Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of macroscopic and electron‐
scale current layers in asymmetric reconnection. By intercomparing plasma, magnetic, and …