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Double arc instability in the solar corona [PDF]

, 2017
The stability of the magnetic field in the solar corona is important for understanding the causes of solar eruptions. Although various scenarios have been suggested to date, the tether-cutting reconnection scenario proposed by Moore et al.(2001) is one ...
73596, 73597, Ishiguro, N., Kusano, K.
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Evolution of Magnetospheric Boundary Layers Under the 10 May 2024 ICME Impact

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 8, 28 April 2026.
Abstract On 10 May 2024, an interplanetary coronal mass ejection‐driven shock impacted the dayside magnetopause, compressing it to ∼5 RE. A northward interplanetary magnetic field suppressed dayside reconnection and allowed a clear investigation of the magnetosphere response.
Sheng Li, Gilbert Pi, Zdeněk Němeček, Jana Šafránková, Trevor W. Leonard, Yang‐Yi Sun   +5 more
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Dynamics of the Transition corona [PDF]

, 2014
Magnetic reconnection between open and closed magnetic field in the corona is believed to play a crucial role in the corona/heliosphere coupling. At large scale, the exchange of open/closed connectivity is expected to occur in pseudo-streamer structures.
DeLuca, Ed, Golub, Leon, Masson, Sophie, McCauley, Patrick, Reeves, Katharine K.   +4 more
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Observations of the Magnetopause Reconnection Ion Diffusion Region With High‐Density O+ Ions During the May 2024 Superstorm

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 8, 28 April 2026.
Abstract Based on high‐resolution measurements from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS), we present the first direct observation of an ion diffusion region (IDR) with high number density O+ ions within dayside magnetopause reconnection during the May 2024 superstorm. The O+ ion density reaches a high value of ∼3.3 cm−3.
Anxin Zhang, Suping Duan, Lei Dai, Yuntian Hou, Yong Ren, Chi Wang, S. A. Fuselier, C. Philippe Escoubet, James L. Burch   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kinetic Scale Magnetic Reconnection with a Turbulent Forcing: Particle-in-cell Simulations

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Turbulent magnetic reconnection has been observed by spacecraft to occur commonly in terrestrial magnetosphere and the solar wind, providing a new scenario of kinetic scale magnetic reconnection.
San Lu, Quanming Lu, Rongsheng Wang, Xinmin Li, Xinliang Gao, Kai Huang, Haomin Sun, Yan Yang, Anton V. Artemyev, Xin An, Yingdong Jia   +10 more
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Observations of a Quickly Flapping Interplanetary Magnetic Reconnection Exhaust

Frontiers in Physics, 2021
On the basis of the Petschek reconnection model and the characteristics of reconnection, hundreds of reconnection exhausts were reported in the solar wind.
Jiemin Wang, Jiemin Wang, Yan Zhao, Yan Zhao   +3 more
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Intermittent reconnection and plasmoids in UV bursts in the low solar atmosphere

, 2017
Magnetic reconnection is thought to drive a wide variety of dynamic phenomena in the solar atmosphere. Yet the detailed physical mechanisms driving reconnection are difficult to discern in the remote sensing observations that are used to study the solar ...
Carlsson, M., De Pontieu, B., Guo, L. J., Hansteen, V. H., Jafarzadeh, S., Martinez-Sykora, J., Nobrega-Siverio, D., Pereira, T. M. D., Rodriguez, J. de la Cruz, Scharmer, G. B., van der Voort, L. Rouppe, Vissers, G.   +11 more
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Magnetopause Boundary Layers in Low Mach CME‐Driven Storm Environment

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 8, 28 April 2026.
Abstract Magnetopause boundary layers (BLs) play an important role mediating plasma and energy exchange between the solar wind/magnetosheath and Earth's magnetosphere. Energy exchange across the magnetopause is enhanced during storms, yet little work has been done investigating BLs during storms.
Rachel C. Rice, Li‐Jen Chen, Tai Phan, Brandon L. Burkholder, Stephen A. Fuselier, Roman Gomez, Cristian P. Ferradas, Jason M. H. Beedle, Megha Pandya   +8 more
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Witnessing Magnetic Reconnection in Tangled Superpenumbral Fibrils around a Sunspot

The Astrophysical Journal
3D magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process crucial for heating the solar corona and generating the solar wind, but resolving and characterizing it for the Sun remain challenging.
Hechao Chen, Hui Tian, Eric R. Priest, Christopher B. Prior, Chun Xia, Anthony R. Yeates, Xiaoli Yan, Yadan Duan, Zhenyong Hou, Zhenghua Huang, Oliver E. K. Rice   +10 more
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First-principles theory of the rate of magnetic reconnection in magnetospheric and solar plasmas

Communications Physics, 2022
Different models exist to characterize magnetic reconnection, a process that converts magnetic energy into plasma thermal and kinetic energy, but a quantitative theoretical predictive model of how rapidly it proceeds has been lacking.
Yi-Hsin Liu, Paul Cassak, Xiaocan Li, Michael Hesse, Shan-Chang Lin, Kevin Genestreti   +5 more
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