1. Advanced methods for analyzing in-situ observations of magnetic reconnection
- Author
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Hasegawa, H., Argall, M. R., Aunai, N., Bandyopadhyay, R., Bessho, N., Cohen, I. J., Denton, R. E., Dorelli, J. C., Egedal, J., Fuselier, S. A., Garnier, P., Genot, V., Graham, D. B., Hwang, K. J., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Korovinskiy, D. B., Lavraud, B., Lenouvel, Q., Li, T. C., Liu, Y. -H., de Welle, B. Michotte, Nakamura, T. K. M., Payne, D. S., Petrinec, S. M., Qi, Y., Rager, A. C., Reiff, P. H., Schroeder, J. M., Shuster, J. R., Sitnov, M. I., Stephens, G. K., Swisdak, M., Tian, A. M., Torbert, R. B., Trattner, K. J., and Zenitani, S.
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Physics - Space Physics ,Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Physics - Plasma Physics - Abstract
There is ample evidence for magnetic reconnection in the solar system, but it is a nontrivial task to visualize, to determine the proper approaches and frames to study, and in turn to elucidate the physical processes at work in reconnection regions from in-situ measurements of plasma particles and electromagnetic fields. Here an overview is given of a variety of single- and multi-spacecraft data analysis techniques that are key to revealing the context of in-situ observations of magnetic reconnection in space and for detecting and analyzing the diffusion regions where ions and/or electrons are demagnetized. We focus on recent advances in the era of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, which has made electron-scale, multi-point measurements of magnetic reconnection in and around Earth's magnetosphere., Comment: submitted to Space Science Reviews (116 pages, incl. 31 figures, 7 tables)
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- 2023