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Identifying the Growth Phase of Magnetic Reconnection Using Pressure‐Strain Interaction
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SPACE PHYSICS
26 february 2025
M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Paul Cassak, Alexandros Chasap...
Magnetic reconnection often initiates abruptly and then rapidly progresses to a nonlinear quasi‐steady state. While satellites frequently det...
Studying the effects of plasma density gradient on non-equilibrium velocity distributions associated with energy conversion in asymmetric reconnection
MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: CONNECTING IDEAS FROM OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND THEORY III POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Harsha Gurram, Haoming Liang, Paul Cassak, M. Hasa...
Dayside magnetopause reconnection results in significant plasma heating and particle acceleration. In collisionless plasmas, velocity distribution fun...
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3D Dynamics of Reconnecting Non-Parallel Heliospheric Flux Ropes in Simulations of the PHASMA Experiment
MAGNETIC STRUCTURES AND WAVES IN THE SOLAR WIND II ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Regis John, Paul Cassak, Subash Adhikari, Gustavo ...
Magnetic flux ropes are columns of plasma with axial and azimuthal magnetic fields and are commonly observed in the solar corona, magnetotail reconnec...
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Particle-in-Cell Study of Ion and Electron Heating in Asymmetric Reconnection
MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: CONNECTING IDEAS FROM OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND THEORY III POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Alexandra Abova-Volkova, Paul Cassak, Michael A. S...
The ability to predict the fraction of magnetic energy converted during magnetic reconnection into plasma heating is crucial to assess its impact on t...
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MMS Observations and Theory of Plasma and Magnetic Field Entropy Outside of Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium in Reconnection and Turbulence
MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: CONNECTING IDEAS FROM OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND THEORY III POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Matthew R. Argall, Hanieh Karimi, M. Hasan Barbhui...
Energy conversion in many space plasmas, due to their weak collisionality, produce velocity-space distribution functions (VDFs) that are far from loca...
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Study and Comparison of Kinetic and Relative Entropy in Energy Conversion Processes in the Electron Diffusion Region (EDR) of Magnetic Reconnection
MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: CONNECTING IDEAS FROM OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND THEORY III POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Hanieh Karimi, Matthew R. Argall, M. Hasan Barbhui...
Kinetic processes in collisionless plasmas, such as magnetic reconnection, create highly structured distribution functions, which are key to identifyi...
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The effect of shear flow on magnetic reconnection in the heliosphere
MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: CONNECTING IDEAS FROM OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND THEORY III POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Michael A. Shay, Colby C. Haggerty, Carlos Giai, P...
Magnetic reconnection occurs throughout the heliosphere and has a major impact on the morphology of plasmas in this system. However, recent Parker Sol...
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Evolution of the Magnetopause X-line Extent During IMF Southward Turning
MAGNETIC RECONNECTION: CONNECTING IDEAS FROM OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND THEORY III POSTER
spa-magnetospheric physics | 13 december 2024
Wei Zhang, Toshi Nishimura, Yuxi Chen, Paul Cassak...
Magnetic reconnection plays a fundamental role in transporting energy, momentum, and plasma from the solar wind to the magnetosphere-ionosphere system...
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