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MMS Observes Two Shocked Sheaths with the Same Driver, Different Obstacles during the April 2023 ICME Event
FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS IN HIGHLY COLLISIONLESS PLASMAS: WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS, TURBULENCE, STRUCTURES, AND INSTABILITIES WITH APPLICATIONS TO HELIOSPHERIC, MAGNETOSPHERIC, AND LABORATORY PLASMA PHYSICS IV ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Craig J. Pollock, James L. Burch, Li-Jen Chen, Chr...
The interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) that erupted from the sun on April 21 2023 was first observed in situ at L1 some 48h later, and near E...
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Pressure-Strain Interaction in a Magnetotail Reconnection Region
MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: CONNECTING IDEAS FROM OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND THEORY II ORAL
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
James L. Burch, Kevin J. Genestreti, Steven V. Heu...
The NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission explores the boundary regions of the Earth's magnetosphere with high-accuracy measurements of charged...
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Magnetic reconnection triggered by electron dynamics in the magnetotail current sheet
PHYSICS OF CURRENT SHEETS IN PLANETARY MAGNETOSPHERES AND SOLAR WIND: PLASMA KINETICS, MAGNETIC RECONNECTION, AND PARTICLE ACCELERATION II POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Rongsheng Wang, San Lu, Quanming Lu, Rumi Nakamura...
By comparing an electron-only reconnection event with a traditional reconnection event observed in the magnetotail, we illustrate the differences betw...
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Observational Evidence of Nonlinear Growth of Whistler-mode Waves in Reconnection Jet at the Magnetopause
FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS IN HIGHLY COLLISIONLESS PLASMAS: WAVE-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS, TURBULENCE, STRUCTURES, AND INSTABILITIES WITH APPLICATIONS TO HELIOSPHERIC, MAGNETOSPHERIC, AND LABORATORY PLASMA PHYSICS I POSTER
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Naritoshi Kitamura, Takanobu Amano, Masahiro Kitah...
The nonlinear wave-particle interaction theory for coherent large amplitude waves [e.g., Omura, 2021 (doi:10.1186/s40623-021-01380-w)] predicts that r...
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Earth's Alfvén Wings Driven by the April 2023 Coronal Mass Ejection
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
24 july 2024
Li-Jen Chen, Daniel J. Gershman, Brandon L. Burkho...
We report a rare regime of Earth's magnetosphere interaction with sub‐Alfvénic solar wind in which the windsock‐like magnetosphere...
Magnetic reconnection is initiated by the electron dynamics
WHAT ARE THE ONSET CONDITIONS OF FAST MAGNETIC RECONNECTION? II ORAL
12 april 2024
Rongsheng Wang, San Lu, Quanming Lu, Rumi Nakamura...
Magnetic reconnection plays a crucial role in explosive energy conversion in geospace. Because of the lack of in-situ spacecraft observations, the ons...
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Dynamics of the Storm Time Magnetopause and Magnetosheath Boundary Layers: An MMS‐THEMIS Conjunction
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
13 february 2024
Rachel Rice, Li-Jen Chen, Daniel J. Gershman, Step...
This letter uses simultaneous observations from Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) and Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substo...
Ion Acceleration and Corresponding Bounce Echoes Induced by Electric Field Impulses: MMS Observations
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS
09 february 2024
Xingyu Li, Zhi-Yang Liu, Qiugang Zong, Xuzhi Zhou,...
Dayside magnetosphere interactions are essential for energy and momentum transport between the solar wind and the magnetosphere. In this study, we ...