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Dong Y, Yuan Z, Huang S, Xue Z, Yu X, Pollock CJ, Torbert RB, Burch JL. Observational evidence of accelerating electron holes and their effects on passing ions. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7276. [PMID: 37949855 PMCID: PMC10638271 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43033-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
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As a universal structure in space plasma, electron holes represent an obvious signature of nonlinear process. Although the theory has a 60-year history, whether electron hole can finally accelerate ambient electrons (or ions) is quite controversial. Previous theory for one-dimensional holes predicts that net velocity change of passing electrons (or ions) occurs only if the holes have non-zero acceleration. However, the prediction has not yet been demonstrated in observations. Here, we report four electron holes whose acceleration/deceleration is obtained by fitting the spatial separations and detection time delays between different Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft. We find that electron hole acceleration/deceleration is related to the ion velocity distribution gradient at the hole's velocity. We observe net velocity changes of ions passing through the accelerating/decelerating holes, in accordance with theoretical predictions. Therefore, we show that electron holes with non-zero acceleration can cause the velocity of passing ions to increase in the acceleration direction.
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- Yue Dong
- School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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- School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Physics Department, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Hasegawa H, Denton RE, Dokgo K, Hwang K, Nakamura TKM, Burch JL. Ion-Scale Magnetic Flux Rope Generated From Electron-Scale Magnetopause Current Sheet: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations. J Geophys Res Space Phys 2023; 128:e2022JA031092. [PMID: 38440152 PMCID: PMC10909477 DOI: 10.1029/2022ja031092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2022] [Revised: 03/05/2023] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2024]
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We present in-depth analysis of three southward-moving meso-scale (ion-to magnetohydrodynamic-scale) flux transfer events (FTEs) and subsequent crossing of a reconnecting magnetopause current sheet (MPCS), which were observed on 8 December 2015 by the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft in the subsolar region under southward and duskward magnetosheath magnetic field conditions. We aim to understand the generation mechanism of ion-scale magnetic flux ropes (ISFRs) and to reveal causal relationship among magnetic field structures, electromagnetic energy conversion, and kinetic processes in magnetic reconnection layers. Results from magnetic field reconstruction methods are consistent with a flux rope with a length of about one ion inertial length growing from an electron-scale current sheet (ECS) in the MPCS, supporting the idea that ISFRs can be generated through secondary reconnection in an ECS. Grad-Shafranov reconstruction applied to the three FTEs shows that the FTEs had axial orientations similar to that of the ISFR. This suggests that these FTEs also formed through the same secondary reconnection process, rather than multiple X-line reconnection at spatially separated locations. Four-spacecraft observations of electron pitch-angle distributions and energy conversion rate j · E ' = j · E + v e × B suggest that the ISFR had three-dimensional magnetic topology and secondary reconnection was patchy or bursty. Previously reported positive and negative values of j · E ' , with magnitudes much larger than expected for typical MP reconnection, were seen in both magnetosheath and magnetospheric separatrix regions of the ISFR. Many of them coexisted with bi-directional electron beams and intense electric field fluctuations around the electron gyrofrequency, consistent with their origin in separatrix activities.
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- H. Hasegawa
- Institute of Space and Astronautical ScienceJapan Aerospace Exploration AgencySagamiharaJapan
- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyDartmouth CollegeHanoverNHUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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Kitamura N, Amano T, Omura Y, Boardsen SA, Gershman DJ, Miyoshi Y, Kitahara M, Katoh Y, Kojima H, Nakamura S, Shoji M, Saito Y, Yokota S, Giles BL, Paterson WR, Pollock CJ, Barrie AC, Skeberdis DG, Kreisler S, Le Contel O, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Lindqvist PA, Ergun RE, Torbert RB, Burch JL. Direct observations of energy transfer from resonant electrons to whistler-mode waves in magnetosheath of Earth. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6259. [PMID: 36307443 PMCID: PMC9616889 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33604-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Electromagnetic whistler-mode waves in space plasmas play critical roles in collisionless energy transfer between the electrons and the electromagnetic field. Although resonant interactions have been considered as the likely generation process of the waves, observational identification has been extremely difficult due to the short time scale of resonant electron dynamics. Here we show strong nongyrotropy, which rotate with the wave, of cyclotron resonant electrons as direct evidence for the locally ongoing secular energy transfer from the resonant electrons to the whistler-mode waves using ultra-high temporal resolution data obtained by NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission in the magnetosheath. The nongyrotropic electrons carry a resonant current, which is the energy source of the wave as predicted by the nonlinear wave growth theory. This result proves the nonlinear wave growth theory, and furthermore demonstrates that the degree of nongyrotropy, which cannot be predicted even by that nonlinear theory, can be studied by observations. Excitation of whistler-mode waves by cyclotron instability is considered as the likely generation process of the waves. Here, the authors show direct observational evidence for locally ongoing secular energy transfer from the resonant electrons to the whistler-mode waves in Earth’s magnetosheath.
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- N Kitamura
- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. .,Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.,Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Geophysics, Graduate school of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Geophysics, Graduate school of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.,Aurora Engineering, Potomac, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.,a.i. solutions Inc, Lanham, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.,Aurora Engineering, Potomac, MD, USA
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université Paris-Saclay/Observatoire de Paris/Ecole Polytechnique Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.,Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Hasegawa H, Denton RE, Nakamura TKM, Genestreti KJ, Phan TD, Nakamura R, Hwang K, Ahmadi N, Shi QQ, Hesse M, Burch JL, Webster JM, Torbert RB, Giles BL, Gershman DJ, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Wei HY, Lindqvist P, Khotyaintsev YV, Ergun RE, Saito Y. Magnetic Field Annihilation in a Magnetotail Electron Diffusion Region With Electron-Scale Magnetic Island. J Geophys Res Space Phys 2022; 127:e2022JA030408. [PMID: 36248013 PMCID: PMC9541864 DOI: 10.1029/2022ja030408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Revised: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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We present observations in Earth's magnetotail by the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft that are consistent with magnetic field annihilation, rather than magnetic topology change, causing fast magnetic-to-electron energy conversion in an electron-scale current sheet. Multi-spacecraft analysis for the magnetic field reconstruction shows that an electron-scale magnetic island was embedded in the observed electron diffusion region (EDR), suggesting an elongated shape of the EDR. Evidence for the annihilation was revealed in the form of the island growing at a rate much lower than expected for the standard X-type geometry of the EDR, which indicates that magnetic flux injected into the EDR was not ejected from the X-point or accumulated in the island, but was dissipated in the EDR. This energy conversion process is in contrast to that in the standard EDR of a reconnecting current sheet where the energy of antiparallel magnetic fields is mostly converted to electron bulk-flow energy. Fully kinetic simulation also demonstrates that an elongated EDR is subject to the formation of electron-scale magnetic islands in which fast but transient annihilation can occur. Consistent with the observations and simulation, theoretical analysis shows that fast magnetic diffusion can occur in an elongated EDR in the presence of nongyrotropic electron effects. We suggest that the annihilation in elongated EDRs may contribute to the dissipation of magnetic energy in a turbulent collisionless plasma.
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- H. Hasegawa
- Institute of Space and Astronautical ScienceJapan Aerospace Exploration AgencySagamiharaJapan
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyDartmouth CollegeHanoverNHUSA
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
- Institute of PhysicsUniversity of GrazGrazAustria
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- Space Sciences LaboratoryUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space PhysicsUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCOUSA
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy and Solar‐Terrestrial EnvironmentInstitute of Space SciencesShandong UniversityWeihaiChina
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- NASA Ames Research CenterMoffett FieldCAUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Institute of PhysicsUniversity of GrazGrazAustria
- Physics DepartmentUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary SciencesUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCOUSA
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical ScienceJapan Aerospace Exploration AgencySagamiharaJapan
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Cozzani G, Khotyaintsev YV, Graham DB, Egedal J, André M, Vaivads A, Alexandrova A, Le Contel O, Nakamura R, Fuselier SA, Russell CT, Burch JL. Structure of a Perturbed Magnetic Reconnection Electron Diffusion Region in the Earth's Magnetotail. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 127:215101. [PMID: 34860109 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.215101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2021] [Revised: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We report in situ observations of an electron diffusion region (EDR) and adjacent separatrix region in the Earth's magnetotail. We observe significant magnetic field oscillations near the lower hybrid frequency which propagate perpendicularly to the reconnection plane. We also find that the strong electron-scale gradients close to the EDR exhibit significant oscillations at a similar frequency. Such oscillations are not expected for a crossing of a steady 2D EDR, and can be explained by a complex motion of the reconnection plane induced by current sheet kinking propagating in the out-of-reconnection-plane direction. Thus, all three spatial dimensions have to be taken into account to explain the observed perturbed EDR crossing. These results shed light on the interplay between magnetic reconnection and current sheet drift instabilities in electron-scale current sheets and highlight the need for adopting a 3D description of the EDR, going beyond the two-dimensional and steady-state conception of reconnection.
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- G Cozzani
- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala 75121, Sweden
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala 75121, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala 75121, Sweden
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- Space and Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11428, Sweden
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Saclay, Observatoire de Paris, École Polytechnique Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau 91128, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Saclay, Observatoire de Paris, École Polytechnique Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau 91128, France
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
- University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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Vines SK, Anderson BJ, Allen RC, Denton RE, Engebretson MJ, Johnson JR, Toledo‐Redondo S, Lee JH, Turner DL, Ergun RE, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT, Wei H, Torbert RB, Fuselier SA, Giles BL, Burch JL. Determining EMIC Wave Vector Properties Through Multi-Point Measurements: The Wave Curl Analysis. J Geophys Res Space Phys 2021; 126:e2020JA028922. [PMID: 33868890 PMCID: PMC8047877 DOI: 10.1029/2020ja028922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves play important roles in particle loss processes in the magnetosphere. Determining the evolution of EMIC waves as they propagate and how this evolution affects wave-particle interactions requires accurate knowledge of the wave vector, k. We present a technique using the curl of the wave magnetic field to determine k observationally, enabled by the unique configuration and instrumentation of the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) spacecraft. The wave curl analysis is demonstrated for synthetic arbitrary electromagnetic waves with varying properties typical of observed EMIC waves. The method is also applied to an EMIC wave interval observed by MMS on October 28, 2015. The derived wave properties and k from the wave curl analysis for the observed EMIC wave are compared with the Waves in Homogenous, Anisotropic, Multi-component Plasma (WHAMP) wave dispersion solution and with results from other single- and multi-spacecraft techniques. We find good agreement between k from the wave curl analysis, k determined from other observational techniques, and k determined from WHAMP. Additionally, the variation of k due to the time and frequency intervals used in the wave curl analysis is explored. This exploration demonstrates that the method is robust when applied to a wave containing at least 3-4 wave periods and over a rather wide frequency range encompassing the peak wave emission. These results provide confidence that we are able to directly determine the wave vector properties using this multi-spacecraft method implementation, enabling systematic studies of EMIC wave k properties with MMS.
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- S. K. Vines
- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyDartmouth CollegeHanoverNHUSA
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- Department of EngineeringAndrews UniversityBerrien SpringsMIUSA
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- Department of Electromagnetism and ElectronicsUniversity of MurciaMurciaSpain
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- The Aerospace CorporationEl SegundoCAUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space PhysicsUniversity of Colorado at BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesInstitute for Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of California at Los AngelesLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesInstitute for Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of California at Los AngelesLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesInstitute for Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of California at Los AngelesLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Space Science CenterUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioTXUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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Eastwood JP, Goldman MV, Phan TD, Stawarz JE, Cassak PA, Drake JF, Newman D, Lavraud B, Shay MA, Ergun RE, Burch JL, Gershman DJ, Giles BL, Lindqvist PA, Torbert RB, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT. Energy Flux Densities near the Electron Dissipation Region in Asymmetric Magnetopause Reconnection. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 125:265102. [PMID: 33449730 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.265102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Revised: 10/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Magnetic reconnection is of fundamental importance to plasmas because of its role in releasing and repartitioning stored magnetic energy. Previous results suggest that this energy is predominantly released as ion enthalpy flux along the reconnection outflow. Using Magnetospheric Multiscale data we find the existence of very significant electron energy flux densities in the vicinity of the magnetopause electron dissipation region, orthogonal to the ion energy outflow. These may significantly impact models of electron transport, wave generation, and particle acceleration.
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- J P Eastwood
- The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for KINETIC Plasma Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
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- Department of Physics/Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, B18N, allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 33615 Pessac, France
- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, CNRS, CNES, Université de Toulouse, 31028 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- LASP/Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- Institute of Geophysics, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Institute of Geophysics, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Fuselier SA, Dayeh MA, Galli A, Funsten HO, Schwadron NA, Petrinec SM, Trattner KJ, McComas DJ, Burch JL, Toledo‐Redondo S, Szalay JR, Strangeway RJ. Neutral Atom Imaging of the Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Exosphere Interaction Near the Subsolar Magnetopause. Geophys Res Lett 2020; 47:e2020GL089362. [PMID: 33380756 PMCID: PMC7757190 DOI: 10.1029/2020gl089362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2020] [Revised: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) created by charge-exchange of ions with the Earth's hydrogen exosphere near the subsolar magnetopause yield information on the distribution of plasma in the outer magnetosphere and magnetosheath. ENA observations from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) are used to image magnetosheath plasma and, for the first time, low-energy magnetospheric plasma near the magnetopause. These images show that magnetosheath plasma is distributed fairly evenly near the subsolar magnetopause; however, low-energy magnetospheric plasma is not distributed evenly in the outer magnetosphere. Simultaneous images and in situ observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft from November 2015 (during the solar cycle declining phase) are used to derive the exospheric density. The ~11-17 cm-3 density at 10 RE is similar to that obtained previously for solar minimum. Thus, these combined results indicate that the exospheric density 10 RE from the Earth may have a weak dependence on solar cycle.
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- S. A. Fuselier
- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Physics InstituteUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology CenterPalo AltoCAUSA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space PhysicsUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- Department of Astrophysical SciencesPrinceton UniversityPrincetonNJUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et PlanétologieUniversité de ToulouseToulouseFrance
- Department of Electromagnetism and ElectronicsUniversity of MurciaMurciaSpain
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- Department of Astrophysical SciencesPrinceton UniversityPrincetonNJUSA
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- Earth and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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Bingham ST, Cohen IJ, Mauk BH, Turner DL, Mitchell DG, Vines SK, Fuselier SA, Torbert RB, Burch JL. Charge-State-Dependent Energization of Suprathermal Ions During Substorm Injections Observed by MMS in the Magnetotail. J Geophys Res Space Phys 2020; 125:e2020JA028144. [PMID: 33133997 PMCID: PMC7583365 DOI: 10.1029/2020ja028144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Revised: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Understanding the energization processes and constituent composition of the plasma and energetic particles injected into the near-Earth region from the tail is an important component of understanding magnetospheric dynamics. In this study, we present multiple case studies of the high-energy (≳40 keV) suprathermal ion populations during energetic particle enhancement events observed by the Energetic Ion Spectrometer (EIS) on NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission in the magnetotail. We present results from correlation analysis of the flux response between different energy channels of different ion species (hydrogen, helium, and oxygen) for multiple cases. We demonstrate that this technique can be used to infer the dominant charge state of the heavy ions, despite the fact that charge is not directly measured by EIS. Using this technique, we find that the energization and dispersion of suprathermal ions during energetic particle enhancements concurrent with (or near) fast plasma flows are ordered by energy per charge state (E/q) throughout the magnetotail regions examined (~7 to 25 Earth radii). The ions with the highest energies (≳300 keV) are helium and oxygen of solar wind origin, which obtain their greater energization due to their higher charge states. Additionally, the case studies show that during these injections the flux ratio of enhancement is also well ordered by E/q. These results expand on previous results which showed that high-energy total ion measurements in the magnetosphere are dominated by high-charge-state heavy ions and that protons are often not the dominant species above ~300 keV.
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- S. T. Bingham
- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Space Science CenterUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioTXUSA
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Petrinec SM, Burch JL, Chandler M, Farrugia CJ, Fuselier SA, Giles BL, Gomez RG, Mukherjee J, Paterson WR, Russell CT, Sibeck DG, Strangeway RJ, Torbert RB, Trattner KJ, Vines SK, Zhao C. Characteristics of Minor Ions and Electrons in Flux Transfer Events Observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission. J Geophys Res Space Phys 2020; 125:e2020JA027778. [PMID: 32999806 PMCID: PMC7507212 DOI: 10.1029/2020ja027778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Revised: 03/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In this study, the ion composition of flux transfer events (FTEs) observed within the magnetosheath proper is examined. These FTEs were observed just upstream of the Earth's postnoon magnetopause by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft constellation. The minor ion characteristics are described using energy spectrograms, flux distributions, and ion moments as the constellation encountered each FTE. In conjunction with electron data and magnetic field observations, such observations provide important contextual information on the formation, topologies, and evolution of FTEs. In particular, minor ions, when combined with the field-aligned streaming of electrons, are reliable indicators of FTE topology. The observations are also placed (i) in context of the solar wind magnetic field configuration, (ii) the connection of the sampled flux tube to the ionosphere, and (iii) the location relative to the modeled reconnection line at the magnetopause. While protons and alpha particles were often depleted within the FTEs relative to the surrounding magnetosheath plasma, the He+ and O+ populations showed clear enhancements either near the center or near the edges of the FTE, and the bulk plasma flow directions are consistent with magnetic reconnection northward of the spacecraft and convection from the dayside toward the flank magnetopause.
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- S. M. Petrinec
- Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology CenterPalo AltoCAUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight CenterHuntsvilleALUSA
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- Space Science CenterUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioTXUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Earth and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Earth and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Space Science CenterUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space PhysicsUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- Earth and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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Hwang K, Dokgo K, Choi E, Burch JL, Sibeck DG, Giles BL, Hasegawa H, Fu HS, Liu Y, Wang Z, Nakamura TKM, Ma X, Fear RC, Khotyaintsev Y, Graham DB, Shi QQ, Escoubet CP, Gershman DJ, Paterson WR, Pollock CJ, Ergun RE, Torbert RB, Dorelli JC, Avanov L, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ. Magnetic Reconnection Inside a Flux Rope Induced by Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices. J Geophys Res Space Phys 2020; 125:e2019JA027665. [PMID: 32714734 PMCID: PMC7375157 DOI: 10.1029/2019ja027665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Revised: 01/29/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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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 can be attributed to nonlinear Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) waves. Reconnection signatures such as flow reversals and Joule dissipation were identified at the leading and trailing edges of the flux rope. In particular, strong northward electron jets observed at the trailing edge indicated midlatitude reconnection associated with the 3-D structure of the KH vortex. The scale size of the flux rope, together with reconnection signatures, strongly supports the interpretation that the flux rope was generated locally by KH vortex-induced reconnection. The center of the flux rope also displayed signatures of guide-field reconnection (out-of-plane electron jets, parallel electron heating, and Joule dissipation). These signatures indicate that an interface between two interlinked flux tubes was undergoing interaction, causing a local magnetic depression, resulting in an M-shaped crater flux rope, as supported by reconstruction.
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- K.‐J. Hwang
- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical ScienceJapan Aerospace Exploration AgencySagamiharaJapan
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- School of Science and EnvironmentBeihang UniversityBeijingChina
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- School of Science and EnvironmentBeihang UniversityBeijingChina
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- School of Science and EnvironmentBeihang UniversityBeijingChina
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- Physical Sciences DepartmentEmbry‐Riddle Aeronautical UniversityDaytona BeachFLUSA
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- School of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of SouthamptonSouthamptonUK
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- School of Earth and Space SciencesPeking UniversityPekingChina
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- European Space Research and Technology CentreNoordwijkthe Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space PhysicsUniversity of Colorado at BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- Space Science CenterUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
- The Goddard Planetary Heliophysics InstituteUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore CountyBaltimoreMDUSA
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCAUSA
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Fu HS, Chen F, Chen ZZ, Xu Y, Wang Z, Liu YY, Liu CM, Khotyaintsev YV, Ergun RE, Giles BL, Burch JL. First Measurements of Electrons and Waves inside an Electrostatic Solitary Wave. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 124:095101. [PMID: 32202894 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.095101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Revised: 11/08/2019] [Accepted: 02/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Electrostatic solitary wave (ESW)-a Debye-scale structure in space plasmas-was believed to accelerate electrons. However, such a belief is still unverified in spacecraft observations, because the ESW usually moves fast in spacecraft frame and its interior has never been directly explored. Here, we report the first measurements of an ESW's interior, by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission located in a magnetotail reconnection jet. We find that this ESW has a parallel scale of 5λ_{De} (Debye length), a superslow speed (99 km/s) in spacecraft frame, a longtime duration (250 ms), and a potential drop eφ_{0}/kT_{e}∼5%. Inside the ESW, surprisingly, there is no electron acceleration, no clear change of electron distribution functions, but there exist strong electrostatic electron cyclotron waves. Our observations challenge the conventional belief that ESWs are efficient at particle acceleration.
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- H S Fu
- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78228, USA
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Khotyaintsev YV, Graham DB, Steinvall K, Alm L, Vaivads A, Johlander A, Norgren C, Li W, Divin A, Fu HS, Hwang KJ, Burch JL, Ahmadi N, Le Contel O, Gershman DJ, Russell CT, Torbert RB. Electron Heating by Debye-Scale Turbulence in Guide-Field Reconnection. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 124:045101. [PMID: 32058767 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.045101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Revised: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We report electrostatic Debye-scale turbulence developing within the diffusion region of asymmetric magnetopause reconnection with a moderate guide field using observations by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. We show that Buneman waves and beam modes cause efficient and fast thermalization of the reconnection electron jet by irreversible phase mixing, during which the jet kinetic energy is transferred into thermal energy. Our results show that the reconnection diffusion region in the presence of a moderate guide field is highly turbulent, and that electrostatic turbulence plays an important role in electron heating.
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala 75121, Sweden
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala 75121, Sweden
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala 75121, Sweden
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- Department of Space and Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11428, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- University of Bergen, Bergen 5007, Norway
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- State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Earth Physics Department, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 198504, Russia
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78228, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78228, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Sud, and Observatoire de Paris, Paris, F-75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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Hwang K, Choi E, Dokgo K, Burch JL, Sibeck DG, Giles BL, Goldstein ML, Paterson WR, Pollock CJ, Shi QQ, Fu H, Hasegawa H, Gershman DJ, Khotyaintsev Y, Torbert RB, Ergun RE, Dorelli JC, Avanov L, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ. Electron Vorticity Indicative of the Electron Diffusion Region of Magnetic Reconnection. Geophys Res Lett 2019; 46:6287-6296. [PMID: 31598018 PMCID: PMC6774273 DOI: 10.1029/2019gl082710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Revised: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 05/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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While vorticity defined as the curl of the velocity has been broadly used in fluid and plasma physics, this quantity has been underutilized in space physics due to low time resolution observations. We report Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observations of enhanced electron vorticity in the vicinity of the electron diffusion region of magnetic reconnection. On 11 July 2017 MMS traversed the magnetotail current sheet, observing tailward-to-earthward outflow reversal, current-carrying electron jets in the direction along the electron meandering motion or out-of-plane direction, agyrotropic electron distribution functions, and dissipative signatures. At the edge of the electron jets, the electron vorticity increased with magnitudes greater than the electron gyrofrequency. The out-of-plane velocity shear along distance from the current sheet leads to the enhanced vorticity. This, in turn, contributes to the magnetic field perturbations observed by MMS. These observations indicate that electron vorticity can act as a proxy for delineating the electron diffusion region of magnetic reconnection.
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- K.‐J. Hwang
- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- The Goddard Planetary Heliophysics InstituteUniversity of MarylandBaltimoreMDUSA
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- School of Earth and Space SciencesPeking UniversityPekingChina
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- School of Science and EnvironmentBeihang UniversityBeijingChina
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical ScienceJapan Aerospace Exploration AgencySagamiharaJapan
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- Space Science CenterUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space PhysicsUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
- The Goddard Planetary Heliophysics InstituteUniversity of MarylandBaltimoreMDUSA
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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Vines SK, Allen RC, Anderson BJ, Engebretson MJ, Fuselier SA, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Ergun RE, Lindqvist PA, Torbert RB, Burch JL. EMIC Waves in the Outer Magnetosphere: Observations of an Off-Equator Source Region. Geophys Res Lett 2019; 46:5707-5716. [PMID: 31423036 PMCID: PMC6686711 DOI: 10.1029/2019gl082152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2019] [Revised: 04/03/2019] [Accepted: 05/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves at large L shells were observed away from the magnetic equator by the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission nearly continuously for over four hours on 28 October 2015. During this event, the wave Poynting vector direction systematically changed from parallel to the magnetic field (toward the equator), to bidirectional, to antiparallel (away from the equator). These changes coincide with the shift in the location of the minimum in the magnetic field in the southern hemisphere from poleward to equatorward of MMS. The local plasma conditions measured with the EMIC waves also suggest that the outer magnetospheric region sampled during this event was generally unstable to EMIC wave growth. Together, these observations indicate that the bidirectionally propagating wave packets were not a result of reflection at high latitudes but that MMS passed through an off-equator EMIC wave source region associated with the local minimum in the magnetic field.
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- S. K. Vines
- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
- Institute for Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
- Institute for Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space PhysicsUniversity of Colorado at BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- Department of Space and Plasma PhysicsRoyal Institute of TechnologyStockholmSweden
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Space Science CenterUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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Cozzani G, Retinò A, Califano F, Alexandrova A, Le Contel O, Khotyaintsev Y, Vaivads A, Fu HS, Catapano F, Breuillard H, Ahmadi N, Lindqvist PA, Ergun RE, Torbert RB, Giles BL, Russell CT, Nakamura R, Fuselier S, Mauk BH, Moore T, Burch JL. In situ spacecraft observations of a structured electron diffusion region during magnetopause reconnection. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:043204. [PMID: 31108651 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.043204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The electron diffusion region (EDR) is the region where magnetic reconnection is initiated and electrons are energized. Because of experimental difficulties, the structure of the EDR is still poorly understood. A key question is whether the EDR has a homogeneous or patchy structure. Here we report Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft observations providing evidence of inhomogeneous current densities and energy conversion over a few electron inertial lengths within an EDR at the terrestrial magnetopause, suggesting that the EDR can be rather structured. These inhomogenenities are revealed through multipoint measurements because the spacecraft separation is comparable to a few electron inertial lengths, allowing the entire MMS tetrahedron to be within the EDR most of the time. These observations are consistent with recent high-resolution and low-noise kinetic simulations.
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- Giulia Cozzani
- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Sud, Observatoire de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France.,Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Fermi", Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Sud, Observatoire de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Fermi", Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Sud, Observatoire de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Sud, Observatoire de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, SE-75121 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, SE-75121 Uppsala, Sweden
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- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, P.R. China
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Sud, Observatoire de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France.,Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, I-87036, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Sud, Observatoire de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France.,Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, CNRS-Université d'Orléans, UMR 7328, 45071 Orléans, France
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10044, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 8042 Graz, Austria
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA.,University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland 20723, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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Phan TD, Eastwood JP, Shay MA, Drake JF, Sonnerup BUÖ, Fujimoto M, Cassak PA, Øieroset M, Burch JL, Torbert RB, Rager AC, Dorelli JC, Gershman DJ, Pollock C, Pyakurel PS, Haggerty CC, Khotyaintsev Y, Lavraud B, Saito Y, Oka M, Ergun RE, Retino A, Le Contel O, Argall MR, Giles BL, Moore TE, Wilder FD, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT, Lindqvist PA, Magnes W. Publisher Correction: Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth's turbulent magnetosheath. Nature 2019; 569:E9. [PMID: 31073227 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1208-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Change history: In this Letter, the y-axis values in Fig. 3f should go from 4 to -8 (rather than from 4 to -4), the y-axis values in Fig. 3h should appear next to the major tick marks (rather than the minor ticks), and in Fig. 1b, the arrows at the top and bottom of the electron-scale current sheet were going in the wrong direction; these errors have been corrected online.
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- T D Phan
- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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- The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA.,NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA
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- CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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Liu H, Zong QG, Zhang H, Xiao CJ, Shi QQ, Yao ST, He JS, Zhou XZ, Pollock C, Sun WJ, Le G, Burch JL, Rankin R. MMS observations of electron scale magnetic cavity embedded in proton scale magnetic cavity. Nat Commun 2019; 10:1040. [PMID: 30833556 PMCID: PMC6399300 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08971-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Magnetic cavities (sometimes referred to as magnetic holes) at electron kinetic scale are thought to be one of the extremely small intermittent structures formed in magnetized turbulent plasmas, where the turbulence energy cascaded down to electron scale may finally be dissipated and consequently energize the electrons. However, the geometry and formation of these structures remain not definitively resolved. Here we discuss an electron scale magnetic cavity embedded in a proton scale magnetic cavity observed by the MMS spacecraft in the magnetosheath. By applying an innovative particle sounding technique, we directly depict the boundary of the electron scale magnetic cavity and uncover the geometry. We find that this structure is nearly circular with a radius of 10.0 km and its formation is due to the diamagnetic current. Investigation of the electron scale structure is only recently made possible by the high spatial and temporal resolution provided by MMS observations.
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- H Liu
- Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.,Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA
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- Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
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- Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy and Solar-Terrestrial Environment, Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy and Solar-Terrestrial Environment, Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209, China
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- Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Denali Scientific, 3771 Mariposa Lane, Fairbanks, AK, 99709, USA
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- Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, 78238, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2G7, AB, Canada
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Angelopoulos V, Cruce P, Drozdov A, Grimes EW, Hatzigeorgiu N, King DA, Larson D, Lewis JW, McTiernan JM, Roberts DA, Russell CL, Hori T, Kasahara Y, Kumamoto A, Matsuoka A, Miyashita Y, Miyoshi Y, Shinohara I, Teramoto M, Faden JB, Halford AJ, McCarthy M, Millan RM, Sample JG, Smith DM, Woodger LA, Masson A, Narock AA, Asamura K, Chang TF, Chiang CY, Kazama Y, Keika K, Matsuda S, Segawa T, Seki K, Shoji M, Tam SWY, Umemura N, Wang BJ, Wang SY, Redmon R, Rodriguez JV, Singer HJ, Vandegriff J, Abe S, Nose M, Shinbori A, Tanaka YM, UeNo S, Andersson L, Dunn P, Fowler C, Halekas JS, Hara T, Harada Y, Lee CO, Lillis R, Mitchell DL, Argall MR, Bromund K, Burch JL, Cohen IJ, Galloy M, Giles B, Jaynes AN, Le Contel O, Oka M, Phan TD, Walsh BM, Westlake J, Wilder FD, Bale SD, Livi R, Pulupa M, Whittlesey P, DeWolfe A, Harter B, Lucas E, Auster U, Bonnell JW, Cully CM, Donovan E, Ergun RE, Frey HU, Jackel B, Keiling A, Korth H, McFadden JP, Nishimura Y, Plaschke F, Robert P, Turner DL, Weygand JM, Candey RM, Johnson RC, Kovalick T, Liu MH, McGuire RE, Breneman A, Kersten K, Schroeder P. The Space Physics Environment Data Analysis System (SPEDAS). Space Sci Rev 2019; 215:9. [PMID: 30880847 PMCID: PMC6380193 DOI: 10.1007/s11214-018-0576-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2018] [Accepted: 12/29/2018] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
With the advent of the Heliophysics/Geospace System Observatory (H/GSO), a complement of multi-spacecraft missions and ground-based observatories to study the space environment, data retrieval, analysis, and visualization of space physics data can be daunting. The Space Physics Environment Data Analysis System (SPEDAS), a grass-roots software development platform (www.spedas.org), is now officially supported by NASA Heliophysics as part of its data environment infrastructure. It serves more than a dozen space missions and ground observatories and can integrate the full complement of past and upcoming space physics missions with minimal resources, following clear, simple, and well-proven guidelines. Free, modular and configurable to the needs of individual missions, it works in both command-line (ideal for experienced users) and Graphical User Interface (GUI) mode (reducing the learning curve for first-time users). Both options have "crib-sheets," user-command sequences in ASCII format that can facilitate record-and-repeat actions, especially for complex operations and plotting. Crib-sheets enhance scientific interactions, as users can move rapidly and accurately from exchanges of technical information on data processing to efficient discussions regarding data interpretation and science. SPEDAS can readily query and ingest all International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP)-compatible products from the Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF), enabling access to a vast collection of historic and current mission data. The planned incorporation of Heliophysics Application Programmer's Interface (HAPI) standards will facilitate data ingestion from distributed datasets that adhere to these standards. Although SPEDAS is currently Interactive Data Language (IDL)-based (and interfaces to Java-based tools such as Autoplot), efforts are under-way to expand it further to work with python (first as an interface tool and potentially even receiving an under-the-hood replacement). We review the SPEDAS development history, goals, and current implementation. We explain its "modes of use" with examples geared for users and outline its technical implementation and requirements with software developers in mind. We also describe SPEDAS personnel and software management, interfaces with other organizations, resources and support structure available to the community, and future development plans. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL The online version of this article (10.1007/s11214-018-0576-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- V. Angelopoulos
- Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Tohoku University, 6-3, Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba Sendai, 980-8578 Japan
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Space Sciences Department, The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, VA USA
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- Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA
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- Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT USA
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- Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA
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- European Space Agency, ESAC, SCI-OPD, Madrid, Spain
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- ADNET Systems Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Institute of Space and Plasma Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Institute of Space and Plasma Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taipei, Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Space Science, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taipei, Taiwan
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- National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO USA
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- National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO USA
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO USA
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- Space Weather Prediction Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- International Center for Space Weather Science and Education, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
- World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Kyoto Data Analysis Center for Geomagnetism and Space Magnetism, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
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- Hida Observatory, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Department of Geophysics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Physics Department and Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université/Univ. Paris Sud/Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Center for Space Physics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA
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- Institute for Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- University of Calgary, Calgary, Ontario Canada
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- University of Calgary, Calgary, Ontario Canada
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- University of Calgary, Calgary, Ontario Canada
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- Center for Space Physics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université/Univ. Paris Sud/Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA
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- ADNET Systems Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA
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- ADNET Systems Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA
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- ADNET Systems Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA
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- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA
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- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Parashar TN, Chasapis A, Bandyopadhyay R, Chhiber R, Matthaeus WH, Maruca B, Shay MA, Burch JL, Moore TE, Giles BL, Gershman DJ, Pollock CJ, Torbert RB, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Roytershteyn V. Kinetic Range Spectral Features of Cross Helicity Using the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 121:265101. [PMID: 30636132 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.265101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2018] [Revised: 10/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We study spectral features of ion velocity and magnetic field correlations in the magnetosheath and in the solar wind using data from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft. High-resolution MMS observations enable the study of the transition of these correlations between their magnetofluid character at larger scales into the subproton kinetic range, previously unstudied in spacecraft data. Cross-helicity, angular alignment, and energy partitioning is examined over a suitable range of scales, employing measurements based on the Taylor frozen-in approximation as well as direct two-spacecraft correlation measurements. The results demonstrate signatures of alignment at large scales. As kinetic scales are approached, the alignment between v and b is destroyed by demagnetization of protons.
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- Tulasi N Parashar
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio 78238-5166, Texas, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt 20771, Maryland, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt 20771, Maryland, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt 20771, Maryland, USA
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- Denali Scientific, Fairbanks 99709, Alaska, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham 03824, New Hampshire, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles 90095-1567, California, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles 90095-1567, California, USA
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Torbert RB, Burch JL, Phan TD, Hesse M, Argall MR, Shuster J, Ergun RE, Alm L, Nakamura R, Genestreti KJ, Gershman DJ, Paterson WR, Turner DL, Cohen I, Giles BL, Pollock CJ, Wang S, Chen LJ, Stawarz JE, Eastwood JP, Hwang KJ, Farrugia C, Dors I, Vaith H, Mouikis C, Ardakani A, Mauk BH, Fuselier SA, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Moore TE, Drake JF, Shay MA, Khotyaintsev YV, Lindqvist PA, Baumjohann W, Wilder FD, Ahmadi N, Dorelli JC, Avanov LA, Oka M, Baker DN, Fennell JF, Blake JB, Jaynes AN, Le Contel O, Petrinec SM, Lavraud B, Saito Y. Electron-scale dynamics of the diffusion region during symmetric magnetic reconnection in space. Science 2018; 362:1391-1395. [PMID: 30442767 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat2998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2018] [Accepted: 11/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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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 spacecraft. On 11 July 2017, the four Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft encountered a reconnection site in Earth's magnetotail, where reconnection involves symmetric inflow conditions. The electron-scale plasma measurements revealed (i) super-Alfvénic electron jets reaching 15,000 kilometers per second; (ii) electron meandering motion and acceleration by the electric field, producing multiple crescent-shaped structures in the velocity distributions; and (iii) the spatial dimensions of the electron diffusion region with an aspect ratio of 0.1 to 0.2, consistent with fast reconnection. The well-structured multiple layers of electron populations indicate that the dominant electron dynamics are mostly laminar, despite the presence of turbulence near the reconnection site.
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- R B Torbert
- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA. .,Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, TX, USA
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- University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, TX, USA.,University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.,University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, TX, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, TX, USA.,University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/Sorbonne Université/Univ. Paris Sud/Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
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- Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, CNRS, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Institute for Space and Astronautical Sciences, Sagamihara, Japan
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Genestreti KJ, Nakamura TKM, Nakamura R, Denton RE, Torbert RB, Burch JL, Plaschke F, Fuselier SA, Ergun RE, Giles BL, Russell CT. How Accurately Can We Measure the Reconnection Rate E M for the MMS Diffusion Region Event of 11 July 2017? J Geophys Res Space Phys 2018; 123:9130-9149. [PMID: 30775197 PMCID: PMC6360497 DOI: 10.1029/2018ja025711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2018] [Revised: 08/10/2018] [Accepted: 09/11/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
We investigate the accuracy with which the reconnection electric field E M can be determined from in situ plasma data. We study the magnetotail electron diffusion region observed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) on 11 July 2017 at 22:34 UT and focus on the very large errors in E M that result from errors in an L M N boundary normal coordinate system. We determine several L M N coordinates for this MMS event using several different methods. We use these M axes to estimate E M. We find some consensus that the reconnection rate was roughly E M = 3.2 ± 0.6 mV/m, which corresponds to a normalized reconnection rate of 0.18 ± 0.035. Minimum variance analysis of the electron velocity (MVA-v e), MVA of E, minimization of Faraday residue, and an adjusted version of the maximum directional derivative of the magnetic field (MDD-B) technique all produce reasonably similar coordinate axes. We use virtual MMS data from a particle-in-cell simulation of this event to estimate the errors in the coordinate axes and reconnection rate associated with MVA-v e and MDD-B. The L and M directions are most reliably determined by MVA-v e when the spacecraft observes a clear electron jet reversal. When the magnetic field data have errors as small as 0.5% of the background field strength, the M direction obtained by MDD-B technique may be off by as much as 35°. The normal direction is most accurately obtained by MDD-B. Overall, we find that these techniques were able to identify E M from the virtual data within error bars ≥20%.
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- K. J. Genestreti
- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
- Now at Space Science CenterUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyDartmouth CollegeHanoverNHUSA
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- Space Science CenterUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
- Space Science and Engineering DivisionSouthwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Space Science and Engineering DivisionSouthwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Space Science and Engineering DivisionSouthwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space SciencesUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- Heliophysics Science DivisionNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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Turner DL, Wilson LB, Liu TZ, Cohen IJ, Schwartz SJ, Osmane A, Fennell JF, Clemmons JH, Blake JB, Westlake J, Mauk BH, Jaynes AN, Leonard T, Baker DN, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT, Gershman DJ, Avanov L, Giles BL, Torbert RB, Broll J, Gomez RG, Fuselier SA, Burch JL. Autogenous and efficient acceleration of energetic ions upstream of Earth's bow shock. Nature 2018; 561:206-210. [PMID: 30209369 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0472-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 07/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Earth and its magnetosphere are immersed in the supersonic flow of the solar-wind plasma that fills interplanetary space. As the solar wind slows and deflects to flow around Earth, or any other obstacle, a 'bow shock' forms within the flow. Under almost all solar-wind conditions, planetary bow shocks such as Earth's are collisionless, supercritical shocks, meaning that they reflect and accelerate a fraction of the incident solar-wind ions as an energy dissipation mechanism1,2, which results in the formation of a region called the ion foreshock3. In the foreshock, large-scale, transient phenomena can develop, such as 'hot flow anomalies'4-9, which are concentrations of shock-reflected, suprathermal ions that are channelled and accumulated along certain structures in the upstream magnetic field. Hot flow anomalies evolve explosively, often resulting in the formation of new shocks along their upstream edges5,10, and potentially contribute to particle acceleration11-13, but there have hitherto been no observations to constrain this acceleration or to confirm the underlying mechanism. Here we report observations of a hot flow anomaly accelerating solar-wind ions from roughly 1-10 kiloelectronvolts up to almost 1,000 kiloelectronvolts. The acceleration mechanism depends on the mass and charge state of the ions and is consistent with first-order Fermi acceleration14,15. The acceleration that we observe results from only the interaction of Earth's bow shock with the solar wind, but produces a much, much larger number of energetic particles compared to what would typically be produced in the foreshock from acceleration at the bow shock. Such autogenous and efficient acceleration at quasi-parallel bow shocks (the normal direction of which are within about 45 degrees of the interplanetary magnetic field direction) provides a potential solution to Fermi's 'injection problem', which requires an as-yet-unexplained seed population of energetic particles, and implies that foreshock transients may be important in the generation of cosmic rays at astrophysical shocks throughout the cosmos.
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- D L Turner
- Space Sciences Department, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA.
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.,Rudolf Peierls Centre of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Space Sciences Department, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA
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- Space Sciences Department, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA
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- Space Sciences Department, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA
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- Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- Institute For the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.,Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA.,Departoment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Space Sciences Department, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA.,Departoment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Kitamura N, Kitahara M, Shoji M, Miyoshi Y, Hasegawa H, Nakamura S, Katoh Y, Saito Y, Yokota S, Gershman DJ, Vinas AF, Giles BL, Moore TE, Paterson WR, Pollock CJ, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Fuselier SA, Burch JL. Direct measurements of two-way wave-particle energy transfer in a collisionless space plasma. Science 2018; 361:1000-1003. [PMID: 30190400 DOI: 10.1126/science.aap8730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Particle acceleration by plasma waves and spontaneous wave generation are fundamental energy and momentum exchange processes in collisionless plasmas. Such wave-particle interactions occur ubiquitously in space. We present ultrafast measurements in Earth's magnetosphere by the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft that enabled quantitative evaluation of energy transfer in interactions associated with electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves. The observed ion distributions are not symmetric around the magnetic field direction but are in phase with the plasma wave fields. The wave-ion phase relations demonstrate that a cyclotron resonance transferred energy from hot protons to waves, which in turn nonresonantly accelerated cold He+ to energies up to ~2 kilo-electron volts. These observations provide direct quantitative evidence for collisionless energy transfer in plasmas between distinct particle populations via wave-particle interactions.
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- N Kitamura
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan. .,Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
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- Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.,Department of Physics, American University, Washington, DC, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA.,University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Eastwood JP, Mistry R, Phan TD, Schwartz SJ, Ergun RE, Drake JF, Øieroset M, Stawarz JE, Goldman MV, Haggerty C, Shay MA, Burch JL, Gershman DJ, Giles BL, Lindqvist PA, Torbert RB, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT. Guide Field Reconnection: Exhaust Structure and Heating. Geophys Res Lett 2018; 45:4569-4577. [PMID: 31031447 PMCID: PMC6473590 DOI: 10.1029/2018gl077670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2018] [Revised: 04/11/2018] [Accepted: 04/14/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Magnetospheric Multiscale observations are used to probe the structure and temperature profile of a guide field reconnection exhaust ~100 ion inertial lengths downstream from the X-line in the Earth's magnetosheath. Asymmetric Hall electric and magnetic field signatures were detected, together with a density cavity confined near 1 edge of the exhaust and containing electron flow toward the X-line. Electron holes were also detected both on the cavity edge and at the Hall magnetic field reversal. Predominantly parallel ion and electron heating was observed in the main exhaust, but within the cavity, electron cooling and enhanced parallel ion heating were found. This is explained in terms of the parallel electric field, which inhibits electron mixing within the cavity on newly reconnected field lines but accelerates ions. Consequently, guide field reconnection causes inhomogeneous changes in ion and electron temperature across the exhaust.
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- The Blackett LaboratoryImperial College LondonLondonUK
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- Space Sciences LaboratoryUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
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- The Blackett LaboratoryImperial College LondonLondonUK
- LASP/Department of Astrophysical and Planetary SciencesUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- LASP/Department of Astrophysical and Planetary SciencesUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- Department of Physics and Institute for Physical Science and TechnologyUniversity of MarylandCollege ParkMDUSA
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- Space Sciences LaboratoryUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
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- The Blackett LaboratoryImperial College LondonLondonUK
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- Department of PhysicsUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of DelawareNewarkDEUSA
- Now at The Department of Astronomy and AstrophysicsUniversity of ChicagoChicagoILUSA
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of DelawareNewarkDEUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of DelawareNewarkDEUSA
- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Department of Space and Plasma PhysicsRoyal Institute of TechnologyStockholmSweden
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- Now at The Department of Astronomy and AstrophysicsUniversity of ChicagoChicagoILUSA
- Space Science CenterUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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Egedal J, Le A, Daughton W, Wetherton B, Cassak PA, Burch JL, Lavraud B, Dorelli J, Gershman DJ, Avanov LA. Spacecraft Observations of Oblique Electron Beams Breaking the Frozen-In Law During Asymmetric Reconnection. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 120:055101. [PMID: 29481157 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.055101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Fully kinetic simulations of asymmetric magnetic reconnection reveal the presence of magnetic-field-aligned beams of electrons flowing toward the topological magnetic x line. Within the ∼6d_{e} electron-diffusion region, the beams become oblique to the local magnetic field, providing a unique signature of the electron-diffusion region where the electron frozen-in law is broken. The numerical predictions are confirmed by in situ Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft observations during asymmetric reconnection at Earth's dayside magnetopause.
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- J Egedal
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, UMR 5277, Toulouse, France
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- Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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Burch JL, Webster JM, Genestreti KJ, Torbert RB, Giles BL, Fuselier SA, Dorelli JC, Rager AC, Phan TD, Allen RC, Chen L, Wang S, Le Contel O, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Ergun RE, Jaynes AN, Lindqvist P, Graham DB, Wilder FD, Hwang K, Goldstein J. Wave Phenomena and Beam-Plasma Interactions at the Magnetopause Reconnection Region. J Geophys Res Space Phys 2018; 123:1118-1133. [PMID: 29938153 PMCID: PMC5993346 DOI: 10.1002/2017ja024789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2017] [Revised: 12/28/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This paper reports on Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of whistler mode chorus and higher-frequency electrostatic waves near and within a reconnection diffusion region on 23 November 2016. The diffusion region is bounded by crescent-shaped electron distributions and associated dissipation just upstream of the X-line and by magnetic field-aligned currents and electric fields leading to dissipation near the electron stagnation point. Measurements were made southward of the X-line as determined by southward directed ion and electron jets. We show that electrostatic wave generation is due to magnetosheath electron beams formed by the electron jets as they interact with a cold background plasma and more energetic population of magnetospheric electrons. On the magnetosphere side of the X-line the electron beams are accompanied by a strong perpendicular electron temperature anisotropy, which is shown to be the source of an observed rising-tone whistler mode chorus event. We show that the apex of the chorus event and the onset of electrostatic waves coincide with the opening of magnetic field lines at the electron stagnation point.
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- J. L. Burch
- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyRice UniversityHoustonTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Department of PhysicsUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
- Department of PhysicsCatholic University of AmericaWashingtonDCUSA
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- Space Sciences LaboratoryUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCAUSA
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- Applied Physics LaboratoryThe Johns Hopkins UniversityLaurelMDUSA
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- Department of AstronomyUniversity of MarylandCollege ParkMDUSA
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- Department of AstronomyUniversity of MarylandCollege ParkMDUSA
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- Laboratoire de Physique des PlasmasCNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, UPMC University Paris 06, Université Paris‐Sud, Observatoire de ParisParisFrance
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- Earth and Planetary SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Earth and Planetary SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- LASPUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of IowaIowa CityIAUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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Rager AC, Dorelli JC, Gershman DJ, Uritsky V, Avanov LA, Torbert RB, Burch JL, Ergun RE, Egedal J, Schiff C, Shuster JR, Giles BL, Paterson WR, Pollock CJ, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT, Lavraud B, Coffey VN, Saito Y. Electron Crescent Distributions as a Manifestation of Diamagnetic Drift in an Electron-Scale Current Sheet: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations Using New 7.5 ms Fast Plasma Investigation Moments. Geophys Res Lett 2018; 45:578-584. [PMID: 29576666 PMCID: PMC5856066 DOI: 10.1002/2017gl076260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2017] [Revised: 12/25/2017] [Accepted: 01/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We report Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of electron pressure gradient electric fields near a magnetic reconnection diffusion region using a new technique for extracting 7.5 ms electron moments from the Fast Plasma Investigation. We find that the deviation of the perpendicular electron bulk velocity from E × B drift in the interval where the out-of-plane current density is increasing can be explained by the diamagnetic drift. In the interval where the out-of-plane current is transitioning to in-plane current, the electron momentum equation is not satisfied at 7.5 ms resolution.
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- A. C. Rager
- Department of PhysicsCatholic University of AmericaWashingtonDCUSA
- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Department of PhysicsCatholic University of AmericaWashingtonDCUSA
- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
- Department of AstronomyUniversity of MarylandCollege ParkMDUSA
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- Department of PhysicsUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Astrophysical and Planetary SciencesUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- Department of PhysicsUniversity of WisconsinMadisonWIUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
- Department of AstronomyUniversity of MarylandCollege ParkMDUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Research Institute in Astrophysics and PlanetologyToulouseFrance
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight CenterHuntsvilleALUSA
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- Institute for Space and Astronautical ScienceSagamiharaJapan
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Varsani A, Nakamura R, Sergeev VA, Baumjohann W, Owen CJ, Petrukovich AA, Yao Z, Nakamura TKM, Kubyshkina MV, Sotirelis T, Burch JL, Genestreti KJ, Vörös Z, Andriopoulou M, Gershman DJ, Avanov LA, Magnes W, Russell CT, Plaschke F, Khotyaintsev YV, Giles BL, Coffey VN, Dorelli JC, Strangeway RJ, Torbert RB, Lindqvist P, Ergun R. Simultaneous Remote Observations of Intense Reconnection Effects by DMSP and MMS Spacecraft During a Storm Time Substorm. J Geophys Res Space Phys 2017; 122:10891-10909. [PMID: 29399431 PMCID: PMC5784414 DOI: 10.1002/2017ja024547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2017] [Revised: 09/27/2017] [Accepted: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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During a magnetic storm on 23 June 2015, several very intense substorms took place, with signatures observed by multiple spacecraft including DMSP and Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS). At the time of interest, DMSP F18 crossed inbound through a poleward expanding auroral bulge boundary at 23.5 h magnetic local time (MLT), while MMS was located duskward of 22 h MLT during an inward crossing of the expanding plasma sheet boundary. The two spacecraft observed a consistent set of signatures as they simultaneously crossed the reconnection separatrix layer during this very intense reconnection event. These include (1) energy dispersion of the energetic ions and electrons traveling earthward, accompanied with high electron energies in the vicinity of the separatrix; (2) energy dispersion of polar rain electrons, with a high-energy cutoff; and (3) intense inward convection of the magnetic field lines at the MMS location. The high temporal resolution measurements by MMS provide unprecedented observations of the outermost electron boundary layer. We discuss the relevance of the energy dispersion of the electrons, and their pitch angle distribution, to the spatial and temporal evolution of the boundary layer. The results indicate that the underlying magnetotail magnetic reconnection process was an intrinsically impulsive and the active X-line was located relatively close to the Earth, approximately at 16-18 RE.
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- A. Varsani
- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Earth's Physics DepartmentSt. Petersburg State UniversitySt. PetersburgRussia
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Mullard Space Science Laboratory/UCLDorkingUK
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- Space Science Technologies and Astrophysics Research InstituteLiegeBelgium
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- Earth's Physics DepartmentSt. Petersburg State UniversitySt. PetersburgRussia
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- Applied Physics LaboratoryThe Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreMAUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
- Institute of PhysicsUniversity of GrazGrazAustria
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Heliophysics Science DivisionNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Heliophysics Science DivisionNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSSLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Heliophysics Science DivisionNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight CenterHuntsvilleALUSA
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- Heliophysics Science DivisionNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- University of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space PhysicsUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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Zhou M, Berchem J, Walker RJ, El-Alaoui M, Deng X, Cazzola E, Lapenta G, Goldstein ML, Paterson WR, Pang Y, Ergun RE, Lavraud B, Liang H, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Zhao C, Giles BL, Pollock CJ, Lindqvist PA, Marklund G, Wilder FD, Khotyaintsev YV, Torbert RB, Burch JL. Coalescence of Macroscopic Flux Ropes at the Subsolar Magnetopause: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 119:055101. [PMID: 28949734 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.055101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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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 R_{E} were identified at the subsolar magnetopause by the occurrence of an asymmetric quadrupolar signature in the normal component of the magnetic field measured by the MMS spacecraft. An electron diffusion region (EDR) with a width of four local electron inertial lengths was embedded within the merging current sheet. The EDR was characterized by an intense parallel electric field, significant energy dissipation, and suprathermal electrons. Although the electrons were organized by a large guide field, the small observed electron pressure nongyrotropy may be sufficient to support a significant fraction of the parallel electric field within the EDR. Since the flux ropes are observed in the exhaust region, we suggest that secondary EDRs are formed further downstream of the primary reconnection line between the magnetosheath and magnetospheric fields.
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- M Zhou
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles 90095, California, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles 90095, California, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles 90095, California, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles 90095, California, USA
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- Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, People's Republic of China
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- Centre for Plasma Astrophysics, Department of Mathematics, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven 3001, Belgium
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- Centre for Plasma Astrophysics, Department of Mathematics, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven 3001, Belgium
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt 20771, Maryland, USA
- Space Science Institute, Boulder 80301, Colorado, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt 20771, Maryland, USA
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- Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, People's Republic of China
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder 80303, Colorado, USA
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, CNES, Toulouse 31028, France
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles 90095, California, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles 90095, California, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles 90095, California, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles 90095, California, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt 20771, Maryland, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt 20771, Maryland, USA
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- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm SE-11428, Sweden
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- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm SE-11428, Sweden
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder 80303, Colorado, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio Texas 78238, USA
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Graham DB, Khotyaintsev YV, Vaivads A, Norgren C, André M, Webster JM, Burch JL, Lindqvist PA, Ergun RE, Torbert RB, Paterson WR, Gershman DJ, Giles BL, Magnes W, Russell CT. Instability of Agyrotropic Electron Beams near the Electron Diffusion Region. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 119:025101. [PMID: 28753352 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.025101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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During a magnetopause crossing the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft encountered an electron diffusion region (EDR) of asymmetric reconnection. The EDR is characterized by agyrotropic beam and crescent electron distributions perpendicular to the magnetic field. Intense upper-hybrid (UH) waves are found at the boundary between the EDR and magnetosheath inflow region. The UH waves are generated by the agyrotropic electron beams. The UH waves are sufficiently large to contribute to electron diffusion and scattering, and are a potential source of radio emission near the EDR. These results provide observational evidence of wave-particle interactions at an EDR, and suggest that waves play an important role in determining the electron dynamics.
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- D B Graham
- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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- Space and Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm SE-11428, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Wilder FD, Ergun RE, Eriksson S, Phan TD, Burch JL, Ahmadi N, Goodrich KA, Newman DL, Trattner KJ, Torbert RB, Giles BL, Strangeway RJ, Magnes W, Lindqvist PA, Khotyaintsev YV. Multipoint Measurements of the Electron Jet of Symmetric Magnetic Reconnection with a Moderate Guide Field. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 118:265101. [PMID: 28707935 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.265101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We report observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites of the electron jet in a symmetric magnetic reconnection event with moderate guide field. All four spacecraft sampled the ion diffusion region and observed the electron exhaust. The observations suggest that the presence of the guide field leads to an asymmetric Hall field, which results in an electron jet skewed towards the separatrix with a nonzero component along the magnetic field. The jet appears in conjunction with a spatially and temporally persistent parallel electric field ranging from -3 to -5 mV/m, which led to dissipation on the order of 8 nW/m^{3}. The parallel electric field heats electrons that drift through it, and is associated with a streaming instability and electron phase space holes.
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- F D Wilder
- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm SE-11428, Sweden
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Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Zhao C, Anderson BJ, Baumjohann W, Bromund KR, Fischer D, Kepko L, Le G, Magnes W, Nakamura R, Plaschke F, Slavin JA, Torbert RB, Moore TE, Paterson WR, Pollock CJ, Burch JL. Structure, force balance, and topology of Earth's magnetopause. Science 2017; 356:960-963. [PMID: 28572393 DOI: 10.1126/science.aag3112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2016] [Revised: 01/25/2017] [Accepted: 05/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The magnetopause deflects the solar wind plasma and confines Earth's magnetic field. We combine measurements made by the four spacecraft of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to demonstrate how the plasma and magnetic forces at the boundary affect the interaction between the shocked solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere. We compare these forces with the plasma pressure and examine the electron distribution function. We find that the magnetopause has sublayers with thickness comparable to the ion scale. Small pockets of low magnetic field strength, small radius of curvature, and high electric current mark the electron diffusion region. The flow of electrons, parallel and antiparallel to the magnetic field, reveals a complex topology with the creation of magnetic ropes at the boundary.
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- C T Russell
- Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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- Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723-6099, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstr. 6, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstr. 6, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.,University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstr. 6, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstr. 6, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstr. 6, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228-0510, USA
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Wang R, Nakamura R, Lu Q, Baumjohann W, Ergun RE, Burch JL, Volwerk M, Varsani A, Nakamura T, Gonzalez W, Giles B, Gershman D, Wang S. Electron-Scale Quadrants of the Hall Magnetic Field Observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft during Asymmetric Reconnection. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 118:175101. [PMID: 28498691 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.175101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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An in situ measurement at the magnetopause shows that the quadrupole pattern of the Hall magnetic field, which is commonly observed in a symmetric reconnection, is still evident in an asymmetric component reconnection, but the two quadrants adjacent to the magnetosphere are strongly compressed into the electron scale and the widths of the remaining two quadrants are still ion scale. The bipolar Hall electric field pattern generally created in a symmetric reconnection is replaced by a unipolar electric field within the electron-scale quadrants. Furthermore, it is concluded that the spacecraft directly passed through the inner electron diffusion region based on the violation of the electron frozen-in condition, the energy dissipation, and the slippage between the electron flow and the magnetic field. Within the inner electron diffusion region, magnetic energy was released and accumulated simultaneously, and it was accumulated in the perpendicular directions while dissipated in the parallel direction. The localized thinning of the current sheet accounts for the energy accumulation in a reconnection.
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- Rongsheng Wang
- Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos 12227-010, Brazil
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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Hesse M, Chen LJ, Liu YH, Bessho N, Burch JL. Population Mixing in Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection with a Guide Field. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 118:145101. [PMID: 28430487 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.145101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We investigate how population mixing leads to structured electron distribution functions in asymmetric guide-field magnetic reconnection based on particle-in-cell simulations. The change of magnetic connectivity patches populations from different inflow regions to form multicomponent distributions in the exhaust, illustrating the direct consequence of the breaking and rejoining of magnetic flux tubes. Finite Larmor radius (FLR) effects of electrons accelerated by the perpendicular electric fields result in crescent-type nongyrotropic distributions. A new type of nongyrotropy is found to be caused by the combined effects of the FLR and velocity dispersion of electrons accelerated by the parallel electric field. The patching together of populations and the effects of acceleration and the FLR form the first steps of mixing in the exhaust and separatrix regions.
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- M Hesse
- Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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Johlander A, Schwartz SJ, Vaivads A, Khotyaintsev YV, Gingell I, Peng IB, Markidis S, Lindqvist PA, Ergun RE, Marklund GT, Plaschke F, Magnes W, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT, Wei H, Torbert RB, Paterson WR, Gershman DJ, Dorelli JC, Avanov LA, Lavraud B, Saito Y, Giles BL, Pollock CJ, Burch JL. Rippled Quasiperpendicular Shock Observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 117:165101. [PMID: 27792387 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.165101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Collisionless shock nonstationarity arising from microscale physics influences shock structure and particle acceleration mechanisms. Nonstationarity has been difficult to quantify due to the small spatial and temporal scales. We use the closely spaced (subgyroscale), high-time-resolution measurements from one rapid crossing of Earth's quasiperpendicular bow shock by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft to compare competing nonstationarity processes. Using MMS's high-cadence kinetic plasma measurements, we show that the shock exhibits nonstationarity in the form of ripples.
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- A Johlander
- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala 75121, Sweden
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala 75120, Sweden
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- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala 75121, Sweden
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- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11428, Sweden
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11428, Sweden
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11428, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11428, Sweden
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse 31028, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 5277, Toulouse 31400, France
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, Sagamihara 2525210, Japan
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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Eriksson S, Wilder FD, Ergun RE, Schwartz SJ, Cassak PA, Burch JL, Chen LJ, Torbert RB, Phan TD, Lavraud B, Goodrich KA, Holmes JC, Stawarz JE, Sturner AP, Malaspina DM, Usanova ME, Trattner KJ, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT, Pollock CJ, Giles BL, Hesse M, Lindqvist PA, Drake JF, Shay MA, Nakamura R, Marklund GT. Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of the Electron Diffusion Region of Large Guide Field Magnetic Reconnection. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 117:015001. [PMID: 27419573 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.015001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We report observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites of a large guide field magnetic reconnection event. The observations suggest that two of the four MMS spacecraft sampled the electron diffusion region, whereas the other two spacecraft detected the exhaust jet from the event. The guide magnetic field amplitude is approximately 4 times that of the reconnecting field. The event is accompanied by a significant parallel electric field (E_{∥}) that is larger than predicted by simulations. The high-speed (∼300 km/s) crossing of the electron diffusion region limited the data set to one complete electron distribution inside of the electron diffusion region, which shows significant parallel heating. The data suggest that E_{∥} is balanced by a combination of electron inertia and a parallel gradient of the gyrotropic electron pressure.
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- S Eriksson
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238-5166, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238-5166, USA
- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, 31028 Toulouse, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 5277, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-11428 Stockholm, Sweden
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- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 8042 Graz, Austria
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-11428 Stockholm, Sweden
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Ergun RE, Goodrich KA, Wilder FD, Holmes JC, Stawarz JE, Eriksson S, Sturner AP, Malaspina DM, Usanova ME, Torbert RB, Lindqvist PA, Khotyaintsev Y, Burch JL, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT, Pollock CJ, Giles BL, Hesse M, Chen LJ, Lapenta G, Goldman MV, Newman DL, Schwartz SJ, Eastwood JP, Phan TD, Mozer FS, Drake J, Shay MA, Cassak PA, Nakamura R, Marklund G. Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellites Observations of Parallel Electric Fields Associated with Magnetic Reconnection. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 116:235102. [PMID: 27341241 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.235102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We report observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale satellites of parallel electric fields (E_{∥}) associated with magnetic reconnection in the subsolar region of the Earth's magnetopause. E_{∥} events near the electron diffusion region have amplitudes on the order of 100 mV/m, which are significantly larger than those predicted for an antiparallel reconnection electric field. This Letter addresses specific types of E_{∥} events, which appear as large-amplitude, near unipolar spikes that are associated with tangled, reconnected magnetic fields. These E_{∥} events are primarily in or near a current layer near the separatrix and are interpreted to be double layers that may be responsible for secondary reconnection in tangled magnetic fields or flux ropes. These results are telling of the three-dimensional nature of magnetopause reconnection and indicate that magnetopause reconnection may be often patchy and/or drive turbulence along the separatrix that results in flux ropes and/or tangled magnetic fields.
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- R E Ergun
- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics (Uppsala), Uppsala, Sweden
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Leuven Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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- The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Nakamura R, Sergeev VA, Baumjohann W, Plaschke F, Magnes W, Fischer D, Varsani A, Schmid D, Nakamura TKM, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Leinweber HK, Le G, Bromund KR, Pollock CJ, Giles BL, Dorelli JC, Gershman DJ, Paterson W, Avanov LA, Fuselier SA, Genestreti K, Burch JL, Torbert RB, Chutter M, Argall MR, Anderson BJ, Lindqvist P, Marklund GT, Khotyaintsev YV, Mauk BH, Cohen IJ, Baker DN, Jaynes AN, Ergun RE, Singer HJ, Slavin JA, Kepko EL, Moore TE, Lavraud B, Coffey V, Saito Y. Transient, small-scale field-aligned currents in the plasma sheet boundary layer during storm time substorms. Geophys Res Lett 2016; 43:4841-4849. [PMID: 27867235 PMCID: PMC5111425 DOI: 10.1002/2016gl068768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Revised: 04/26/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We report on field-aligned current observations by the four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft near the plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL) during two major substorms on 23 June 2015. Small-scale field-aligned currents were found embedded in fluctuating PSBL flux tubes near the separatrix region. We resolve, for the first time, short-lived earthward (downward) intense field-aligned current sheets with thicknesses of a few tens of kilometers, which are well below the ion scale, on flux tubes moving equatorward/earthward during outward plasma sheet expansion. They coincide with upward field-aligned electron beams with energies of a few hundred eV. These electrons are most likely due to acceleration associated with a reconnection jet or high-energy ion beam-produced disturbances. The observations highlight coupling of multiscale processes in PSBL as a consequence of magnetotail reconnection.
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Eastwood JP, Phan TD, Cassak PA, Gershman DJ, Haggerty C, Malakit K, Shay MA, Mistry R, Øieroset M, Russell CT, Slavin JA, Argall MR, Avanov LA, Burch JL, Chen LJ, Dorelli JC, Ergun RE, Giles BL, Khotyaintsev Y, Lavraud B, Lindqvist PA, Moore TE, Nakamura R, Paterson W, Pollock C, Strangeway RJ, Torbert RB, Wang S. Ion-scale secondary flux ropes generated by magnetopause reconnection as resolved by MMS. Geophys Res Lett 2016; 43:4716-4724. [PMID: 27635105 PMCID: PMC5001194 DOI: 10.1002/2016gl068747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Revised: 04/28/2016] [Accepted: 04/29/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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New Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observations of small-scale (~7 ion inertial length radius) flux transfer events (FTEs) at the dayside magnetopause are reported. The 10 km MMS tetrahedron size enables their structure and properties to be calculated using a variety of multispacecraft techniques, allowing them to be identified as flux ropes, whose flux content is small (~22 kWb). The current density, calculated using plasma and magnetic field measurements independently, is found to be filamentary. Intercomparison of the plasma moments with electric and magnetic field measurements reveals structured non-frozen-in ion behavior. The data are further compared with a particle-in-cell simulation. It is concluded that these small-scale flux ropes, which are not seen to be growing, represent a distinct class of FTE which is generated on the magnetopause by secondary reconnection.
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- Space Sciences LaboratoryUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyWest Virginia UniversityMorgantownWest VirginiaUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
- Department of AstronomyUniversity of MarylandCollege ParkMarylandUSA
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of DelawareNewarkDelawareUSA
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- Department of PhysicsMahidol UniversityBangkokThailand
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of DelawareNewarkDelawareUSA
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- Blackett LaboratoryImperial College LondonLondonUK
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- Space Sciences LaboratoryUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Climate and Space Sciences and EngineeringUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMichiganUSA
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- Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and SpaceUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNew HampshireUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
- Department of AstronomyUniversity of MarylandCollege ParkMarylandUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTexasUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
- Department of AstronomyUniversity of MarylandCollege ParkMarylandUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space PhysicsUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderColoradoUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et PlanétologieUniversité de ToulouseToulouseFrance
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 5277ToulouseFrance
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- School of Electrical EngineeringRoyal Institute of TechnologyStockholmSweden
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary and Space SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and SpaceUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNew HampshireUSA
- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTexasUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
- Department of AstronomyUniversity of MarylandCollege ParkMarylandUSA
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Burch JL, Torbert RB, Phan TD, Chen LJ, Moore TE, Ergun RE, Eastwood JP, Gershman DJ, Cassak PA, Argall MR, Wang S, Hesse M, Pollock CJ, Giles BL, Nakamura R, Mauk BH, Fuselier SA, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Drake JF, Shay MA, Khotyaintsev YV, Lindqvist PA, Marklund G, Wilder FD, Young DT, Torkar K, Goldstein J, Dorelli JC, Avanov LA, Oka M, Baker DN, Jaynes AN, Goodrich KA, Cohen IJ, Turner DL, Fennell JF, Blake JB, Clemmons J, Goldman M, Newman D, Petrinec SM, Trattner KJ, Lavraud B, Reiff PH, Baumjohann W, Magnes W, Steller M, Lewis W, Saito Y, Coffey V, Chandler M. Electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space. Science 2016; 352:aaf2939. [PMID: 27174677 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 438] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas whereby stored magnetic energy is converted into heat and kinetic energy of charged particles. Reconnection occurs in many astrophysical plasma environments and in laboratory plasmas. Using measurements with very high time resolution, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has found direct evidence for electron demagnetization and acceleration at sites along the sunward boundary of Earth's magnetosphere where the interplanetary magnetic field reconnects with the terrestrial magnetic field. We have (i) observed the conversion of magnetic energy to particle energy; (ii) measured the electric field and current, which together cause the dissipation of magnetic energy; and (iii) identified the electron population that carries the current as a result of demagnetization and acceleration within the reconnection diffusion/dissipation region.
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- J L Burch
- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA.
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA. University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA
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- Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA
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- Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Institute for Space and Astronautical Sciences, Sagamihara, Japan
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- NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA
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Mozer FS, Agapitov OA, Artemyev A, Burch JL, Ergun RE, Giles BL, Mourenas D, Torbert RB, Phan TD, Vasko I. Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellite Observations of Parallel Electron Acceleration in Magnetic Field Reconnection by Fermi Reflection from Time Domain Structures. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 116:145101. [PMID: 27104714 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.145101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The same time domain structures (TDS) have been observed on two Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellites near Earth's dayside magnetopause. These TDS, traveling away from the X line along the magnetic field at 4000 km/s, accelerated field-aligned ∼5 eV electrons to ∼200 eV by a single Fermi reflection of the electrons by these overtaking barriers. Additionally, the TDS contained both positive and negative potentials, so they were a mixture of electron holes and double layers. They evolve in ∼10 km of space or 7 ms of time and their spatial scale size is 10-20 km, which is much larger than the electron gyroradius (<1 km) or the electron inertial length (4 km at the observation point, less nearer the X line).
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- F S Mozer
- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Glushkova Avenue, 4, Kyiv 01601, Ukraine
- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90002, USA
- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
- LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
- LPC2 E/CNRS-University of Orleans, Orleans 45100, France
- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
- Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia 117342
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Glushkova Avenue, 4, Kyiv 01601, Ukraine
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90002, USA
- Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia 117342
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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- LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- LPC2 E/CNRS-University of Orleans, Orleans 45100, France
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia 117342
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Burch JL, Cravens TE, Llera K, Goldstein R, Mokashi P, Tzou C, Broiles T. Charge exchange in cometary coma: Discovery of H - ions in the solar wind close to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Geophys Res Lett 2015; 42:5125-5131. [PMID: 27656008 PMCID: PMC5012123 DOI: 10.1002/2015gl064504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2015] [Revised: 06/15/2015] [Accepted: 06/16/2015] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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As Rosetta was orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the Ion and Electron Sensor detected negative particles with angular distributions like those of the concurrently measured solar wind protons but with fluxes of only about 10% of the proton fluxes and energies of about 90% of the proton energies. Using well-known cross sections and energy-loss data, it is determined that the fluxes and energies of the negative particles are consistent with the production of H- ions in the solar wind by double charge exchange with molecules in the coma.
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- J. L. Burch
- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTexasUSA
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- Physics and Astronomy DepartmentUniversity of KansasLawrenceKansasUSA
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- Physics and Astronomy DepartmentUniversity of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioTexasUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTexasUSA
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- Physics InstituteUniversity of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTexasUSA
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Burch JL, Lennartsson W, Hanson WB, Heelis RA, Hoffman JH, Hoffman RA. Properties of spikelike shear flow reversals observed in the auroral plasma by Atmosphere Explorer C. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/ja081i022p03886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Burch JL, Fields SA, Hanson WB, Heelis RA, Hoffman RA, Janetzke RW. Characteristics of auroral electron acceleration regions observed by Atmosphere Explorer C. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/ja081i013p02223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Barfield JN, Burch JL, Williams DJ. Substorm-associated reconfiguration of the dusk side equatorial magnetosphere: A possible source mechanism for isolated plasma regions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1029/ja080i001p00047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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