• Bifurcated Current Sheet Observed on the Boundary of Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices 

      Hwang, K.-J.; Dokgo, K.; Choi, E.; Burch, J.L.; Sibeck, D.G.; Giles, B.L.; Norgren, Astrid Elisabet Cecilia; Nakamura, T.K.M.; Graham, D.B.; Khotyaintsev, Y.; Shi, Q.Q.; Gershman, D.J.; Pollock, C.J.; Ergun, R.E.; Torbert, R.B.; Russell, C.T.; Strangeway, R.J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      On May 5, 2017 MMS observed a bifurcated current sheet at the boundary of Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices (KHVs) developed on the dawnside tailward magnetopause. We use the event to enhance our understanding of the formation and ...
    • Direct observations of anomalous resistivity and diffusion in collisionless plasma 

      Graham, D.B.; Khotyaintsev, Yu. V.; André, M.; Vaivads, A.; Divin, A.; Drake, J.F.; Norgren, Astrid Elisabet Cecilia; Le Contel, Contel; Lindqvist, P.-A.; Rager, A.C.; Gershman, D.J.; Russell, C.T.; Burch, J.L.; Hwang, K.-J.; Dokgo, K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Coulomb collisions provide plasma resistivity and diffusion but in many low-density astrophysical plasmas such collisions between particles are extremely rare. Scattering of particles by electromagnetic waves can lower the ...
    • Quantification of Cold-Ion Beams in a Magnetic Reconnection Jet 

      Li, Yu-Xuan; Li, Wen-Ya; Tang, Bin-Bin; Norgren, C.; He, Jian-Sen; Wang, Chi; Zong, Qiu-Gang; Toledo-Redondo, S.; André, M.; Chappell, C.; Dargent, J.; Fuselier, S.A.; Glocer, A.; Graham, D.B.; Haaland, S.; Kistler, L.; Lavraud, B.; Moore, T.E.; Tenfjord, P.; Vines, S.K.; Burch, J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Cold (few eV) ions of ionospheric origin are widely observed in the lobe region of Earth’s magnetotail and can enter the ion jet region after magnetic reconnection is triggered in the magnetotail. Here, we investigate a ...