A long-standing problem in magnetic reconnection is to explain why it tends to proceed at or
below a normalized rate of 0.1. This article gives a review of observational and numerical …

Abstract The Van Allen Probes Electric Fields and Waves (EFW) instrument provided
measurements of electric fields and spacecraft floating potentials over a wide dynamic range …

Magnetic reconnection converts, often explosively, stored magnetic energy to particle
energy in space and in the laboratory. Through processes operating on length scales that …

Magnetic reconnection is known to be an important process for coupling solar wind mass
and momentum into the Earth's magnetosphere. Reconnection is initiated in an electron …

Turbulent plasmas generate a multitude of thin current structures that can be sites for
magnetic reconnection. The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has recently …

We report observations of turbulent dissipation and particle acceleration from large‐
amplitude electric fields (E) associated with strong magnetic field (B) fluctuations in the …

Whistler waves that can produce anomalous resistivity by affecting electrons' motion have
been suggested as one of the mechanisms responsible for magnetic reconnection in the …

Two‐and three‐dimensional particle‐in‐cell simulations of a recent encounter of the
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) with an electron diffusion region at the …

We report observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites of a large guide
field magnetic reconnection event. The observations suggest that two of the four MMS …

Electron heating and mixing during asymmetric reconnection are studied with a 3‐D kinetic
simulation that matches plasma parameters from Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) …