Plasma and magnetic field turbulence in the Earth's magnetosheath at ion scales

L Rakhmanova, M Riazantseva… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Crossing the Earth's bow shock is known to crucially affect solar wind plasma including
changes in turbulent cascade. The present review summarizes results of more than 15 years …

The interplay between collisionless magnetic reconnection and turbulence

JE Stawarz, PA Muñoz, N Bessho… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Alongside magnetic reconnection, turbulence is another fundamental nonlinear plasma
phenomenon that plays a key role in energy transport and conversion in space and …

Origin of reconnecting current sheets in shocked turbulent plasma

S Wang, S Lu, Q Lu, R Wang, J Ren, X Gao, J Guo - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Magnetic reconnection, the rearrangement of magnetic field topologies, is a fundamental
plasma process throughout the universe, which converts magnetic energy to plasma kinetic …

Magnetotail reconnection onset caused by electron kinetics with a strong external driver

S Lu, R Wang, Q Lu, V Angelopoulos… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Turbulence-driven magnetic reconnection and the magnetic correlation length: Observations from Magnetospheric Multiscale in Earth's magnetosheath

JE Stawarz, JP Eastwood, TD Phan, IL Gingell… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Turbulent plasmas generate a multitude of thin current structures that can be sites for
magnetic reconnection. The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has recently …

Electron‐only reconnection as a transition from quiet current sheet to standard reconnection in earth's magnetotail: Particle‐In‐Cell simulation and application to MMS …

S Lu, Q Lu, R Wang, PL Pritchett… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Strong reconnection electric fields in shock-driven turbulence

N Bessho, LJ Chen, JE Stawarz, S Wang, M Hesse… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Multiple subscale magnetic reconnection embedded inside a heliospheric current sheet reconnection exhaust: evidence for flux rope merging

TD Phan, JF Drake, D Larson, M Oieroset… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report observations of multiple subscale reconnecting current sheets embedded inside a
large-scale heliospheric current sheet (HCS) reconnection exhaust. The discovery was …

Statistics of reconnecting current sheets in the transition region of earth's bow shock

I Gingell, SJ Schwartz, JP Eastwood… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Energy dissipation in turbulent reconnection

R Bandyopadhyay, A Chasapis, WH Matthaeus… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We study the nature of pressure-strain interaction at reconnection sites detected by NASA's
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission. We employ data from a series of previously published …