Collisionless magnetic reconnection in the magnetosphere

Q Lu, H Fu, R Wang, S Lu - Chinese Physics B, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic reconnection underlies the physical mechanism of explosive phenomena in the
solar atmosphere and planetary magnetospheres, where plasma is usually collisionless. In …

Global Hall MHD simulations of Mercury's magnetopause dynamics and FTEs under different solar wind and IMF conditions

C Li, X Jia, Y Chen, G Toth, H Zhou… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mercury possesses a miniature but dynamic magnetosphere driven primarily by the solar
wind through magnetic reconnection. A prominent feature of the dayside magnetopause …

Magnetopause reconnection as influenced by the dipole tilt under southward IMF conditions: Hybrid simulation and MMS observation

Z Guo, Y Lin, X Wang, SK Vines… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Using a three‐dimensional (3‐D) global‐scale hybrid code, the Magnetospheric
Multiscale (MMS) reconnection event around 02: 13 UT on 18 November 2015, highlighted …

Energy flux through the magnetopause during flux transfer events in hybrid‐Vlasov 2D simulations

M Ala‐Lahti, TI Pulkkinen, Y Pfau‐Kempf… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar wind—magnetosphere coupling drives magnetospheric dynamic phenomena by
enabling energy exchange between magnetospheric and solar wind plasmas. In this study …

The spatial extent of magnetopause magnetic reconnection from in situ THEMIS measurements

EA Atz, BM Walsh, JM Broll… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause has long been studied with multi‐spacecraft
observations. In this work, data from the five satellite THEMIS mission during the years of …

Global‐MHD Simulations Using MagPIE: Impact of Flux Transfer Events on the Ionosphere

A Paul, A Strugarek, B Vaidya - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents a recently developed two‐way coupled magnetosphere‐ionosphere
model named “MagPIE” that enables the investigation of the impact of flux transfer events …

A volumetric study of flux transfer events at the dayside magnetopause

A Paul, B Vaidya, A Strugarek - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Localized magnetic reconnection at the dayside magnetopause leads to the production of
Flux Transfer Events (FTEs). The magnetic fields within the FTEs exhibit complex helical flux …

The cusp plasma imaging detector (CuPID) CubeSat observatory: Mission overview

BM Walsh, MR Collier, E Atz… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Cusp Plasma Imaging detector (CuPID) Cube Satellite Observatory is a six‐unit
Cube Satellite developed to study macroscale properties of dayside magnetopause …

Dayside Pc2 Waves Associated With Flux Transfer Events in a 3D Hybrid‐Vlasov Simulation

F Tesema, M Palmroth, L Turc, H Zhou… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Flux transfer events (FTEs) are transient magnetic flux ropes at Earth's dayside
magnetopause formed due to magnetic reconnection. As they move across the …

[HTML][HTML] The complexity of the day-side X-line during southward interplanetary magnetic field

BL Burkholder, LJ Chen, K Sorathia, A Sciola… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
High-resolution global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations include both meso-and
global-scale processes occurring at the magnetopause, which interact to determine the time …