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 Instrumentation/Technology/Engineering

2021

Bingham, S. T., Nikoukar, R., Cohen, I. J., Mauk, B. H., Turner, D. L., Mitchell, D. G., et al. (2021). Evidence for nonadiabatic oxygen energization in the near-Earth magnetotail from MMS. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091697. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091697

Chen, Y. Q., Wu, M., Zhang, T. L., Huang, Y., Wang, G. Q., Nakamura, R., et al. (2021). Statistical characteristics of field-aligned currents in the plasma sheet boundary layer. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028319. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028319

Denton, R. E., Torbert, R. B., Hasegawa, H., Genestreti, K. J., Manuzzo, R., Belmont, G., et al. (2021). Two-dimensional velocity of the magnetic structure observed on July 11, 2017 by the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028705. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028705

Farrugia, C. J., Rogers, A. J., Torbert, R. B., Genestreti, K. J., Nakamura, T. K. M., Lavraud, B., et al. (2021). An encounter with the ion and electron diffusion regions at a flapping and twisted tail current sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028903. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028903

Fuselier, S. A., Haaland, S., Tenfjord, P., Paschmann, G., Toledo-Redondo, S., Malaspina, D., et al. (2021). High-density magnetospheric He+ at the dayside magnetopause and its effect on magnetic reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028722. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028722

Gao, C.-H., Tang, B.-B., Li, W. Y., Wang, C., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Graham, D. B., et al. (2021). Effect of the electric field on the agyrotropic electron distributions. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091437. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091437

Jia, Y.-D., Qi, Y., Lu, S., & Russell, C. T. (2021). Temporal evolution of flux rope/tube entanglement in 3-D Hall MHD simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028698. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028698

Keesee, A. M., Buzulukova, N., Mouikis, C., & Scime, E. E. (2021). Mesoscale structures in Earth's magnetotail observed using energetic neutral atom imaging. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091467. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091467

Kieokaew, R., Lavraud, B., Fargette, N., Marchaudon, A., Génot, V., Jacquey, C., et al. (2021). Statistical relationship between interplanetary magnetic field conditions and the helicity sign of flux transfer event flux ropes. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091257. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091257

Lipatov, A. S., Avanov, L. A., & Giles, B. L. (2021). Particle acceleration by dense impulsive structures moving in ambient magnetospheric plasma. 3-D hybrid kinetic modeling and MMS observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL088590. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088590

Liu, T. Z., Hao, Y., Wilson, L. B. III, Turner, D. L., & Zhang, H. (2021). Magnetospheric multiscale observations of Earth's oblique bow shock reformation by foreshock ultralow-frequency waves. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL091184. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091184

Madanian, H., M. I. Desai, S. J. Schwartz, L. B. Wilson III, S. A. Fuselier, J. L. Burch, O. Le Contel, D. L. Turner, K. Ogasawara, A. L. Brosius, C. T. Russell, R. E. Ergun, N. Ahmadi, D. J. Gershman, and P.-A. Lindqvist (2021), The Dynamics of a High Mach Number Quasi-perpendicular Shock: MMS Observations, The Astrophysical Journal, 908:40 (11pp). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abcb88

Nykyri, K., Ma, X., Burkholder, B., Rice, R., Johnson, J. R., Kim, E.-K., et al. (2021). MMS observations of the multiscale wave structures and parallel electron heating in the vicinity of the southern exterior cusp. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2019JA027698. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027698

Ren, Y., Dai, L., Wang, C., Li, W., Tao, X., Lavraud, B., & Le Contel, O. (2021). Statistical characteristics in the spectrum of whistler waves near the diffusion region of dayside magnetopause reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL090816. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090816

Robertson, S. L., Eastwood, J. P., Stawarz, J. E., Hietala, H., Phan, T. D., Lavraud, B., et al. (2021). Electron trapping in magnetic mirror structures at the edge of magnetopause flux ropes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2021JA029182. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029182

Rufai, O. R., G. V. Khazanov, S. V. Singh (2021), Finite amplitude electron-acoustic waves in the electron diffusion region, Results in Physics, 24, 104041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2021.104041

Scudder, J. D. (2021). Measuring particle current density J on NASA’s magnetospheric multiscale mission (MMS). Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028619. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028619

Trattner, K. J., Fuselier, S. A., Petrinec, S. M., Burch, J. L., Ergun, R., & Grimes, E. W. (2021). Long and active magnetopause reconnection X-lines during changing IMF conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028926. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028926

Turner, D. L., Cohen, I. J., Bingham, S. T., Stephens, G. K., Sitnov, M. I., Mauk, B. H., et al. (2021). Characteristics of energetic electrons near active magnetotail reconnection sites: Tracers of a complex magnetic topology and evidence of localized acceleration. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL090089. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090089

Turner, D. L., L. B. Wilson III, K. A. Goodrich, H. Madanian, S. J. Schwartz, T. Z. Liu, A. Johlander, D. Caprioli, I. J. Cohen, D. Gershman (2021), Direct Multipoint Observations Capturing the Reformation of a Supercritical Fast Magnetosonic Shock, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 911:L31 (11pp). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/abec78

Vidal-Luengo, S. E., & Moldwin, M. B. (2021). Global magnetosphere response to solar wind dynamic pressure pulses during northward IMF using the heliophysics system observatory. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028587. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028587

Vines, S. K., Anderson, B. J., Allen, R. C., Denton, R. E., Engebretson, M. J., Johnson, J. R., et al. (2021). Determining EMIC wave vector properties through multi-point measurements: The wave curl analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028922. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028922

Volwerk, M., D. Mautner, C. S. Wedlund, C. Goetz, F. Plaschke, T. Karlsson, D. Schmid, D. Rojas-Castillo, O. W. Roberts, and A. Varsani (2021), Statistical study of linear magnetic hole structures near Earth, Ann. Geophys., 39, 239–253. https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-39-239-2021

Wang, G. Q., M. Volwerk, M. Y. Wu, Y. F. Hao, S. D. Xiao, G. Wang, L. J. Liu, Y. Q. Chen, and T. L. Zhang (2021), First Observations of an Ion Vortex in a Magnetic Hole in the Solar Wind by MMS, The Astronomical Journal, 161:110 (4pp). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abd632

Wellenzohn, S., Nakamura, R., Nakamura, T. K. M., Varsani, A., Sergeev, V. A., Apatenkov, S. V., et al. (2021). Remote sensing of magnetic reconnection in the magnetotail using in situ multipoint observations at the plasma sheet boundary layer. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028917. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028917

Zhang, L. Q., Wang, C., Dai, L., Fu, H. S., Lui, A. T. Y., Baumjohann, W., et al. (2021). MMS observation on the cross-tail current sheet roll-up at the dipolarization front. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028796. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028796

Zhao, S. Q., Xiao, C. J., Liu, T. Z., Chen, H., Zhang, H., Shi, M. J., et al. (2021). Observations of the beam-driven whistler mode waves in the magnetic reconnection region at the dayside magnetopause. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028525

2020

Akhavan‐Tafti, M., Palmroth, M., Slavin, J. A., Battarbee, M., Ganse, U., Grandin, M., et al. (2020). Comparative analysis of the Vlasiator simulations and MMS observations of multiple X‐line reconnection and flux transfer events. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2019JA027410. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027410

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Roberts, O. W., R. Nakamura, K. Torkar, Y. Narita, J.  C. Holmes,  Z. Vörös, C.  Lhotka, C. P. Escoubet, D. B. Graham, D.  J. Gershman,  Y.  Khotyaintsev,  and P.-A. Lindqvist (2020), Sub-ion Scale Compressive Turbulence in the Solar Wind: MMS Spacecraft Potential Observations, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 250:35 (20pp).  https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/abb45d

Silveira, M. D., Sibeck, D. G.,Lee, S. H., Koga, D., Souza, V. M.,Gonzalez, W. D., & Russell, C. T.(2020). Flux transfer event with an electron-scale substructure observedby the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,125, e2019JA027308. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027308

Starkey, M., S. A. Fuselier, M. I. Desai, S. J. Schwartz, R. G. Gomez, J. Mukherjee, I. J. Cohen, and C. T. Russell (2020), MMS observations of accelerated interstellar pickup He⁺ ions at an interplanetary shock, The Astrophysical Journal, 897:6 (10pp). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab960c

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