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Electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space

Published:2016-06-03 Issue:6290 Volume:352 Page:
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Burch J. L.¹,Torbert R. B.¹²,Phan T. D.³,Chen L.-J.⁴,Moore T. E.⁵,Ergun R. E.⁶,Eastwood J. P.⁷,Gershman D. J.⁵,Cassak P. A.⁸,Argall M. R.²,Wang S.⁴,Hesse M.⁵,Pollock C. J.⁵,Giles B. L.⁵,Nakamura R.⁹,Mauk B. H.¹⁰,Fuselier S. A.¹,Russell C. T.¹¹,Strangeway R. J.¹¹,Drake J. F.⁴,Shay M. A.¹²,Khotyaintsev Yu. V.¹³,Lindqvist P.-A.¹⁴,Marklund G.¹⁴,Wilder F. D.⁶,Young D. T.¹,Torkar K.⁹,Goldstein J.¹,Dorelli J. C.⁵,Avanov L. A.⁵,Oka M.³,Baker D. N.⁶,Jaynes A. N.⁶,Goodrich K. A.⁶,Cohen I. J.¹⁰,Turner D. L.¹⁵,Fennell J. F.¹⁵,Blake J. B.¹⁵,Clemmons J.¹⁵,Goldman M.¹⁶,Newman D.¹⁶,Petrinec S. M.¹⁷,Trattner K. J.⁶,Lavraud B.¹⁸,Reiff P. H.¹⁹,Baumjohann W.⁹,Magnes W.⁹,Steller M.⁹,Lewis W.¹,Saito Y.²⁰,Coffey V.²¹,Chandler M.²¹

Affiliation:

1. Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA.

2. University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.

3. University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

4. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

5. NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.

6. University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA.

7. Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK.

8. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.

9. Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria.

10. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA.

11. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

12. University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.

13. Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden.

14. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

15. Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA.

16. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.

17. Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

18. Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France.

19. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.

20. Institute for Space and Astronautical Sciences, Sagamihara, Japan.

21. NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA.

Abstract

Probing magnetic reconnection in space Magnetic reconnection occurs when the magnetic field permeating a conductive plasma rapidly rearranges itself, releasing energy and accelerating particles. Reconnection is important in a wide variety of physical systems, but the details of how it occurs are poorly understood. Burch et al. used NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to probe the plasma properties within a reconnection event in Earth's magnetosphere (see the Perspective by Coates). They find that the process is driven by the electron-scale dynamics. The results will aid our understanding of magnetized plasmas, including those in fusion reactors, the solar atmosphere, solar wind, and the magnetospheres of Earth and other planets. Science , this issue p. 10.1126/science.aaf2939 ; see also p. 1176

Funder

Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG

UK Science and Technology Facilities Council

NASA Solar Terrestrial Probes

University of Colorado

NASA MMS-IDS

Swedish National Space Board

NSF

NASA

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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