Magnetic reconnection: MHD theory and modelling

DI Pontin, ER Priest - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2022 - Springer
In this review we focus on the fundamental theory of magnetohydrodynamic reconnection,
together with applications to understanding a wide range of dynamic processes in the solar …

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 …

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 …

Cross-scale processes of magnetic reconnection

KJ Hwang, R Nakamura, JP Eastwood… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Various physical processes in association with magnetic reconnection occur over multiple
scales from the microscopic to macroscopic scale lengths. This paper reviews multi-scale …

Reconnection with magnetic flux pileup at the interface of converging jets at the magnetopause

M Øieroset, TD Phan, JF Drake… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We report Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of reconnection in a thin current
sheet at the interface of interlinked flux tubes carried by converging reconnection jets at …

Magnetic reconnection inside a flux rope induced by Kelvin‐Helmholtz vortices

KJ Hwang, K Dokgo, E Choi, JL Burch… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
On 5 May 2017, MMS observed a crater‐type flux rope on the dawnside tailward
magnetopause with fluctuations. The boundary‐normal analysis shows that the fluctuations …

On the ubiquity of magnetic reconnection inside flux transfer event‐like structures at the Earth's magnetopause

N Fargette, B Lavraud, M Øieroset… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Flux transfer events (FTEs) are transient phenomena frequently observed at the Earth's
magnetopause. Their usual interpretation is a flux rope moving away from the reconnection …

Secondary reconnection between interlinked flux tubes driven by magnetic reconnection with a short x‐line

K Huang, Q Lu, YH Liu, S Lu, X Li… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A three‐dimensional particle‐in‐cell simulation is performed to study secondary
reconnection between two interlinked flux tubes produced by neighboring guide field …

Division of magnetic flux rope via magnetic reconnection observed in the magnetotail

X Li, R Wang, Q Lu - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Using high‐resolution data from Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, we report an
intense current layer at the center of a flux rope (FR) in the magnetotail. The intense current …

Ion‐scale magnetic flux rope generated from electron‐scale magnetopause current sheet: Magnetospheric Multiscale observations

H Hasegawa, RE Denton, K Dokgo… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We present in‐depth analysis of three southward‐moving meso‐scale (ion‐to
magnetohydrodynamic‐scale) flux transfer events (FTEs) and subsequent crossing of a …