Frontiers in Physics, 2021 Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process providing topological changes of the magnetic field, reconfiguration of space plasmas and release of energy in key space weather phenomena, solar flares, coronal mass ejections and magnetospheric substorms ...
Mikhail Sitnov +3 more
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Compression of the Earth's magnetotail by interplanetary shocks directly drives transient magnetic flux closure [PDF]
, 2006 peer reviewedWe use a novel method to evaluate the global opening and closure of magnetic flux in the terrestrial system, and to analyse two interplanetary shock passages that occurred during magnetically quiet periods.
Palmroth, Minna +26 more
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South-north asymmetry of field-aligned currents in the magnetotail observed by Cluster [PDF]
, 2010 We statistically investigated features of the field-aligned current (FAC) distribution in plasma sheet boundary layers between 17 and 19 RE in the magnetotail using the curlometer technique to calculate the current from four-point magnetic field ...
Lahiff, A. D. +86 more
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Electron‐Scale Measurements of Antidipolarization Front
Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 Antidipolarization fronts (ADFs), usually formed at the leading edge of the tailward reconnection jets in the Earth's magnetotail, are characterized by sharp enhancements of southward magnetic field (negative Bz). The fine structures at electron scale of
Yin Xu +5 more
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Magnetic reconnection in the Jovian tail : X-line evolution and consequent plasma sheet structures [PDF]
, 2011 Magnetic reconnection in planetary magnetospheres plays important roles in energy and mass transfer in the steady state, and also possibly in transient large-scale disturbances.
Kimura, T. +18 more
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Multi-scale observations of magnetotail flux transport during IMF-northward non-substorm intervals [PDF]
, 2007 Simultaneous observations by the Cluster spacecraft and SuperDARN radars are presented of magnetotail flux transport during northward, but BY-dominated IMF.
H. U. Frey +29 more
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Supercorotating return flow from reconnection in Saturn's magnetotail [PDF]
, 2011 Detecting plasma dynamics in Saturn's magnetosphere is essential for understanding energy flow through the system. It has been proposed that both the Dungey and Vasyliunas cycles operate at Saturn, and the competition between these cycles has been ...
Badman, S. V. +27 more
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Magnetic Reconnection in the Martian Magnetotail: Occurrence Rate and Impact on Ion Loss
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 The current sheet is crucial in releasing magnetic free energy in cosmic plasmas via fast magnetic reconnection or wave excitation. This research investigates the characteristics of the Martian tail current sheet by analyzing data acquired from the Mars ...
Lei Wang +6 more
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1988 When a rapidly moving low‐density plasma encounters a massive magnetized object in space, a tail of magnetic field lines typically forms behind the object. Some of the field lines that thread through the central body are stretched out in the downstream direction be cause of frictional processes that act between the body's own field lines and the ...
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page i-xiv., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
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