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Graham, D. B., Yu. V. Khotyaintsev,M. Andr ́e,A. Vaivads,A. Divin,J. F. Drake,C. Norgren,O. Le Contel,P.-A. Lindqvist,A. C. Rager,D. J. Gershman,C. T. Russell,J. L. Burch,K. J. Hwang,and K. Dokgo, First Direct Observations of Anomalous Resistivity and Diffusion in Collisionless Plasma, Nature Astronomy, submitted, 2019.

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Birn, J., A. Runov, and Y. Khotyaintsev (2019), Magnetotail Processes, in Magnetosphere, AGU book, edited by Romain Maggiolo, Nicolas André, Hiroshi Hasegawa, and Dan Welling, in press.

2020

Birn, J., M. Chandler, and R. Nakamura (2020), Ion Beams in the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer: MMS Observations and Test Particle Simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 125, e2019JA027113. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027113

Denton, R. E., R. B. Torbert, H. Hasegawa,,I.Dors, K. J. Genestreti, M. R. Argall, D. Gershman, O. Le Contel, J. L. Burch, C. T. Russell, R. J. Strangeway, B. L. Giles, and D. Fischer (2020), Polynomial reconstruction of the reconnection magnetic field observed by multiple spacecraft, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,125, e2019JA027481. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027481

Hesse, M., and P. A. Cassak (2020), Magnetic Reconnection in the Space Sciences: Past, Present, and Future, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2018JA025935. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025935

Khotyaintsev, Yu. V., D. B. Graham, K. Steinvall, L. Alm, A. Vaivads, A. Johlander, C. Norgren, W. Li, A. Divin, H. S. Fu, K.-J. Hwang, J. L. Burch, N. Ahmadi, O. Le Contel, D. J. Gershman, C. T. Russell, and R. B. Torbert (2020), Electron Heating by Debye-Scale Turbulence in Guide-Field Reconnection, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 045101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.045101

2019

Akhavan‐Tafti, M., Slavin, J. A., Eastwood, J. P., Cassak, P. A., & Gershman, D. J. (2019), MMS multi‐point analysis of FTE evolution: Physical characteristics and dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 5376–5395. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026311

Akhavan‐Tafti, M., Slavin, J. A., Sun, W. J., Le, G., & Gershman, D. J. (2019), MMS Observations of Plasma Heating Associated with FTE Growth, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 12,654-12,664. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084843

Alm, L., Andr'e, M., Graham, D. B., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Vaivads, A., Chappell, C. R., Dargent, J., Fuselier, S. A., Haaland, S., Lavaraud, B., Li, W., Tenfjord, P., Toledo-Redondo, S., & Vines, S. K. (2019), MMS observations of multiscale Hall physics in the magnetotail. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 10,230-10,239. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084137

Andrés, N., F. Sahraoui, S. Galtier, L. Z. Hadid, R. Ferrand, and S. Y. Huang (2019), Energy Cascade Rate Measured in a Collisionless Space Plasma with MMS Data and Compressible Hall Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Theory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 245101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.245101.

Bai, S.‐C., Shi, Q., Zong, Q.‐G., Wang, X., Tian, A., Degeling, A. W., et al.(2019). Electron dispersion and parallelelectron beam observed near the separatrix, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 7494–7504. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026836

Barrie, A. C., Smith, D. L., Elkington, S. R., Sternovsky, Z., Silva, D., Giles, B. L., & Schiff, C. (2019),Wavelet compression performance of MMS/FPI plasma count data with plasma environment, Earth and Space Science,6, 116–135. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EA000430

Bessho, N., L.-J. Chen, S. Wang, and M. Hesse (2019), Effects of the guide field on electron distribution functions in the diffusion region of asymmetric reconnection, Physics of Plasmas 26, 082310; https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5092809

Bessho, N., Chen, L.‐J., Wang, S., Hesse, M., & Wilson, L. B. ( 2019), Magnetic reconnection in a quasi‐parallel shock: Two‐dimensional local particle‐in‐cell simulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 46. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083397

Birn, J., Liu, J., Runov, A., Kepko, L., & Angelopoulos, V. (2019), On the contribution of dipolarizing flux bundles to the substorm current wedge and to flux and energy transport. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 5408–5420. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026658

Blake, J. B., Fennell, J. F., Turner, D. L., Cohen, I. J., & Mauk, B. H. (2019). Delayed arrival of energetic solar particles at MMS on 16 July 2017. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 2711–2719. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026341

Burch, J. L., Dokgo, K., Hwang, K. J., Torbert, R. B., Graham, D. B., Webster, J. M., Ergun, R. E., Giles, B. L., Allen, R. C., Chen, L.-J., Wang, S., Genestreti, K. J., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J., Le Contel, O. (2019), High‐frequency wave generation in magnetotail reconnection: Linear dispersion analysis. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 4089–4097. https://d oi.org/10.1029/2019GL082471

Chen, L.‐J., Wang, S., Hesse, M., Ergun, R. E., Moore, T., Giles, B., Bessho, N., Russell, C., Burch, J., Torbert, R. B., Genestreti, K. J., Paterson, W., Pollock, C., Lavraud, B., Le Contel, O., Strangeway, R., Khotyaintsev, Yu. V., Lindqvist, P.-A. (2019), Electron diffusion regions in magnetotail reconnection under varying guide fields. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 6230– 6238. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082393

Chen, Y. Q., Wu, M., Wang, G., Schmid, D., Zhang, T., Nakamura, R., Baumjohann W., Burch, J. L., Giles, B. L., Russell, C. T. (2019), Carriers of the field‐aligned currents in the plasma sheet boundary layer: An MMS multicase study, Journal of Geophysical Research: SpacePhysics,124, 2873–2886. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026216

Chen, Z. Z., Fu, H. S., Liu, C. M., Wang, T. Y., Ergun, R. E., Cozzani, G., Huang, S. Y., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Le Contel, O., Giles, B. L., Burch, J. L. (2019), Electron‐driven dissipation in a tailward flow burst, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 5698–5706. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082503

Chen, Z. Z., Fu, H. S., Wang, T. Y., Cao, D., Peng, F. Z., Yang, J., and Xu, Y. (2019), Reconstructing the flux-rope topology using the FOTE method, Science China Technological Sciences, 62(1), pp 144–150, http://doi.org/10.1007/S11431-017-9201-1

Chen, Z. Z., H. S. Fu, Z.  Wang, C. M. Liu, and Y.  Xu, (2019), Evidence of magnetic nulls in the reconnection at bow shock, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 10,209-10,218. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084360

Cohen, I. J., Mauk, B. H., Turner, D. L., Fennell, J. F., Blake, J. B., Reeves, G. D., Leonard, T. W., Baker, D. N., Jaynes, A. N., Spence, H. E., Gabrielse, C. (2019), Drift‐dispersed flux dropouts of energetic electrons observed in Earth's middle magnetosphere by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 3069–3078. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082008

Cohen, I. J., Schwartz, S. J., Goodrich, K. A., Ahmadi, N., Ergun, R. E., Fuselier, S. A., Desai, M. I., Christian, E. R., McComas, D. J., Zank, G. P., Shuster, J. R., Vines, S. K., Mauk, B. H., Decker, R. B., Anderson, B. J., Westlake, J. H., Le Contel, O., Breuillard H., Giles, B. L., Torbert, R. B., Burch, J. L. (2019), High‐resolution measurements of the cross‐shock potential, ion reflection, and electron heating at an interplanetary shock by MMS. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,124, 3961–3978. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026197

Cozzani, G., A. Retinò, F. Califano, A. Alexandrova, O. Le Contel, Y. Khotyaintsev, A. Vaivads, H. S. Fu, F. Catapano, H. Breuillard, N. Ahmadi, P.-A. Lindqvist, R. E. Ergun, R. B. Torbert, B. L. Giles, C. T. Russell, R. Nakamura, S. Fuselier, B. H. Mauk, T. Moore, and J. L. Burch (2019), In situ spacecraft observations of a structured electron diffusion region during magnetopause reconnection, Phys. Rev. E 99, 043204. http://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVE.99.043204

Ergun, R. E., S. Hoilijoki, N. Ahmadi, S. J. Schwartz, F. D. Wilder, J. F. Drake, M. Hesse, M. A. Shay, H. Ji, M. Yamada, D. B. Graham, P. A. Cassak, M. Swisdak, J. L. Burch, R. B. Torbert, J. C. Holmes, J. E. Stawarz, K. A. Goodrich, S. Eriksson, R. J. Strangeway, and O. LeContel (2019), Magnetic reconnection in three dimensions: Modeling and analysis of electromagnetic drift waves in the adjacent current sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 124, 10,085-10,103. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027275

Fadanelli, S., Lavraud, B., Califano, F., Jacquey, C., Vernisse, Y., Kacem, I., et al. (2019), Four‐spacecraft measurements of the shape and dimensionality of magnetic structures in the near‐Earth plasma environment, Journal of Geophysical Research: SpacePhysics, 124, 6850–6868. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026747

Fletcher, A. C., Crabtree, C., Ganguli, G., Malaspina, D., Tejero, E., and Chu, X. (2019). Kinetic equilibrium and stability analysis of dipolarization fronts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 2010–2028. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026433

Fu, H. S., Peng, F. Z., Liu, C. M., Burch, J. L., Gershman, D. G., & Le Contel, O. (2019). Evidence of electron acceleration at a reconnecting magnetopause. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 5645–5652. https://doi.org/ 10.1029/2019GL083032

Fuselier, S. A., K. J. Trattner, S. M. Petrinec, M. H. Denton, S. Toledo-Redondo, M. André, N. Aunai, C. R. Chappell, A. Glocer, S. Haaland, M. Hesse, L. M. Kistler, B. Lavraud, W. Li, T. E. Moore, D. Graham, L. Alm, P. Tenfjord, J. Dargent, S. K. Vines, K. Nykyri, J. L. Burch, and R. J. Strangeway (2019), Mass-loading the Earth’s dayside magnetopause boundary layer and its effect on magnetic reconnection, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 6204–6213 6204–6213. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL08238

Fuselier, S. A., Trattner, K. J., Petrinec, S. M., Pritchard, K. R., Burch, J. L., Cassak, P. A., Giles, B. L., Lavraud, B., Strangeway, R. J. ( 2019). Stationarity of the Reconnection X‐Line at Earth's Magnetopause for Southward IMF. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027143

Fuselier, S. A., J. Mukherjee, M. H. Denton, S. M. Petrinec, K. J. Trattner, S. Toledo‐Redondo, S., M. André, N. Aunai, C. R. Chappell, A. Glocer, S. Haaland, M. Hesse, L. M. Kistler, B. Lavraud, W. Y. Li, T. E. Moore, D. Graham, P. Tenfjord, J. Dargent, S. K. Vines,R. J. Strangeway, and J. L. Burch (2019), High‐density O⁺ in Earth's outer magnetosphere and its effect on dayside magnetopause magnetic reconnection, Journal of Geophysical Research: SpacePhysics, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027396

Gingell, I., S. J. Schwartz, J. P. Eastwood, J. L. Burch, R. E. Ergun, S. Fuselier, D. J. Gershman, B. L. Giles, Y. V. Khotyaintsev, B. Lavraud, P.-A. Lindqvist, W. R. Paterson, T. D. Phan, C. T. Russell, J. E. Stawarz, R. J. Strangeway, R. B. Torbert, and F. Wilder (2019). Observations of magnetic reconnection in the transition region of quasi-parallel shocks. Geophysical Research Letters,46, 1177–1184. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081804

Gomez, R. G., Fuselier, S. A., Mukherjee, J., Gonzalez, C. A., Burch,J. L., Strangeway, R. J., & Starkey, M. J.(2019). The extra‐magnetospheric ion environment as observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission hot plasma composition analyzer (MMS‐HPCA). Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,124,1509–1524. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025392

Goodrich, K. A., Ergun, R., Schwartz, S. J., Wilson, L. B. III, Johlander, A., Newman, D., Wilder, F. D., Holmes, J., Burch, J., Torbert, R., Khotyaintsev, Y., Lindqvist, P.-A., Strangeway, R., Gershman, D., Giles, B. (2019). Impulsively reflected ions: A plausible mechanism for ion acoustic wave growth in collisionless shocks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,124, 1855–1865. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026436

Graham, D. B., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Norgren, C., Vaivads, A., André, M., Drake, J. F., Egedal, J., Zhou, M., Le Contel, O., Webster, J. M., Lavraud, B., Kacem, I., Génot, V., Jacquey, C., Rager, A. C., Gershman, D. J., Burch, J. L., Ergun, R. E.(2019). Universality of lower hybrid waves at Earth's magnetopause, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027155

Grošelj, D. C. H. K. Chen, A. Mallet, R. Samtaney, K. Schneider, and F. Jenko (2019), Kinetic Turbulence in Astrophysical Plasmas: Waves and/or Structures? Phys. Rev. X, 9, 031037. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031037

Hamrin, M., H. Gunell, O. Goncharov, A. De Spiegeleer, S. Fuselier, J. Mukherjee, A. Vaivads, T. Pitkänen1, R. B. Torbert, and B. Giles (2019), Can reconnection be triggered as a solar wind directional discontinuity crosses the bow shock? A case of asymmetric reconnection, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027006

Hanson, E. L. M., Agapitov, O. V., Mozer, F. S., Krasnoselskikh, V., Bale, S. D., Avanov, L., Khotyaintsev, Y., Giles, B. (2019). Cross‐shock potential in rippled versus planar quasi‐perpendicular shocks observed by MMS. Geophysical Research Letters,46, 2381–2389.https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080240

Hasegawa, H., Denton, R. E., Nakamura, R., Genestreti, K. J., Nakamura, T. K. M., Hwang, K.-J., Phan, T. D., Torbert, R. B., Burch, J. L., Giles, B. L., Gershman, D. J., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J., Lindqvist, P.-A., Khotyaintsev, Y., Ergun, R. E., Kitamura, N., Saito, Y. (2019). Reconstruction of the electron diffusion region of magnetotail reconnection seen by the MMS spacecraft on 11 July 2017.Journalof Geophysical Research: Space Physics,124,122–138.https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026051

Hoilijoki, S., R. E. Ergun, S. J. Schwartz, S. Eriksson, F. D. Wilder, J. M. Webster, N. Ahmadi, O. Le Contel, J. L. Burch, R. B. Torbert, R.  J.  Strangeway, and B. L. Giles

 al. (2019), Electron-scale magnetic structure observed adjacent to an electron diffusion region at the dayside magnetopause, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 10,153-10,169. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027192

Holmes, J. C., Ergun, R. E., Nakamura, R., Roberts, O., Wilder, F. D., & Newman, D. L. (2019), Structure of electron-scale plasma mixing along the dayside reconnection separatrix, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 8788-8803. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026974

Huang, S. Y., L. H. He, Z. G. Yuan, F. Sahraoui, O. Le Contel, X. H. Deng, M. Zhou, H. S. Fu, K. Jiang, X. D. Yu, H. M. Li, D. Deng, C. J. Pollock, R. B. Torbert, and J. L. Burch (2019), MMS Observations of Kinetic-size Magnetic Holes in the Terrestrial Magnetotail Plasma Sheet, The Astrophysical Journal, 875(2).http://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/AB0F2F

Huang, S. Y., Jiang, K., Yuan, Z. G., Zhou, M., Sahraoui, F., Fu, H. S.,Deng X. H., Khotyaintsev, Y., Yu, X. D., He, L. H., Deng, D., Pollock, C. J., Torbert R. B., Burch, J. L.(2019). Observations of flux ropes with strong energy dissipation in the magnetotail. Geophysical ResearchLetters,46, 580–589.https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081099

Hwang, K.‐J., Choi, E., Dokgo, K., Burch, J. L., Sibeck, D. G., Giles, B. L., Goldstein, M. L., Paterson, W. R., Pollock, C. J., Shi, Q. Q., Fu, H., Hasegawa, H., Gershman, D. J., Khotyaintsev, Y., Torbert, R. B., Ergun, R. E., Dorelli, J. C., Avanov, L., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J. (2019). Electron vorticity indicative of the electron diffusion region of magnetic reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 6287–6296.https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082710

Jiang, K., S. Y. Huang, Z. G. Yuan, F. Sahraoui, X. H. Deng, X. D. Yu, L. H. He, D. Deng, Y. Y. Wei, and S. B. Xu (2019), The Role of Upper Hybrid Waves in the Magnetotail Reconnection Electron Diffusion Region, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 881(2), L28. https://DOI.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab36b9

Lee, J. H., D. L. Turner, S. Toledo‐Redondo, S. K. Vines, R. C. Allen, S. A. Fuselier, et al. (2019). MMS measurements and modeling of peculiar electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 11,622-11,631. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085182

Li, B., Han, D.‐S., Hu, Z.‐J., Hu, H.‐Q., Liu, J.‐J., Dai, L., Liu, D., Escoubert, C. P., Dunlop, M. W., Ergun, R. E., Lindqvist, P.-A., Torbert, R. B., Russell, C. T. (2019). Magnetospheric multiscale observations of ULF waves and correlated low‐energy ion monoenergetic acceleration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,124, 2788–2794. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026372

Liang, H., P. A. Cassak, S. Servidio, M. A. Shay, J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, M. R. Argall, J. C. Dorelli, E. E. Scime, W. H. Matthaeus, V. Roytershteyn, and G. L. Delzanno (2019), Decomposition of Plasma Kinetic Entropy into Position and Velocity Space and the Use of Kinetic Entropy in Particle-in-Cell Simulations, Phys. Plasmas, 26, 082903. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5098888

Liu, H., Q.-G. Zong, H. Zhang, C.J. Xiao, Q.Q. Shi, S.T. Yao, J.S. He, X.-Z. Zhou, C. Pollock, W.J. Sun, G. Le, J.L. Burch, and R. Rankin (2019). MMS observations of electron scale magnetic cavity embedded in proton scale magnetic cavity, Nature Communications, volume 10, Article number: 1040. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08971-y

Liu, H., Zong, Q.-G., Zhang, H., Sun, W. J., Zhou, X.-Z., Gershman, D. J., Shi C., Zhang K., Le G., and Pollock C. (2019). The geometry of an electron scale magnetic cavity in the plasma sheet. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 9308–9317. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083569

Liu, Y.-H., T. C. Li, M. Hesse, W. J. Sun, J. Liu, J. Burch, J. A. Slavin and K. Huang (2019), Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection with a spatially confined x-line extent — Implications for Dipolarizing Flux Bundles and the Dawn-Dusk Asymmetry Journal ofGeophysical Research: Space Physics,124, 2819–2830. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026539

Liu, Y. Y., H. S. Fu, C. M. Liu, Z. Wang, P. Escoubet, K.-J. Hwang, J. L. Burch, and B. L. Giles (2019), Parallel Electron Heating by Tangential Discontinuity in the Turbulent Magnetosheath, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 877(2). http://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/AB1FE6

Lu, S. W., C. Wang, W. Y. Li, B. B. Tang, R. B. Torbert, B. L. Giles, C. T. Russell, J. L. Burch, J. P. McFadden, H. U. Auster, and V. Angelopoulos (2019), Prolonged Kelvin–Helmholtz Waves at Dawn and Dusk Flank Magnetopause: Simultaneous Observations by MMS and THEMIS, The Astrophysical Journal, 875(1). http://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/AB0E76

Macek, W. M., M. V. D. Silveira, D. G. Sibeck, B. L. Giles, and J. L. Burch (2019), Mechanism of Reconnection on Kinetic Scales Based on Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Observations, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 885:L26 (6pp). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab4b5a

Manuzzo, R., G. Belmont, L. Rezeau, F. Califano, and R. E. Denton (2019), Crossing of plasma structures by spacecraft: A path calculator, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 124, 10.119-10.140.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026632

Nakamura, R., Genestreti, K. J., Nakamura, T., Baumjohann, W., Varsani, A., Nagai, T., Bessho, N., Burch, J. L., Denton, R. E., Eastwood, J. P., Ergun, R. E., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L., Hasegawa, H., Hesse, M., Lindqvist, P.-A., Russell, C. T., Stawarz, J. E., Strangeway, R. J., Torbert, R. B. (2019). Structure of the current sheet in the 11 July 2017 Electron Diffusion Region event. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 1173–1186. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026028

Nakamura, T. K. M, T. Umeda, R. Nakamura, H. S. Fu, and M. Oka (2019), Disturbance of the Front Region of Magnetic Reconnection Outflow Jets due to the Lower-Hybrid Drift Instability, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 235101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.235101

Nykyri, K., Chu, C., Ma, X., Fuselier, S. A., & Rice, R. (2019). First MMS observation of energeticparticles trapped in high-latitude magnetic field depressions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 197–210. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026131

Øieroset, M., Phan, T. D., Drake, J. F., Eastwood, J. P., Fuselier, S. A., Strangeway, R. J., Hagerty, C., Shay, M. A., Oka, M., Wang, S., Chen, L.-J., I. Kacem, Lavraud, B., Angelopoulos, V., Burch, J. L., Torbert, R. B., Ergun, R. E., Khotyaintsev, Y., Lindqvist, P. A., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L., Pollock, C., Moore, T. E., Russell, C. T., Saito, Y., Avanov, L. A., Paterson, W. (2019). Reconnection with magnetic flux pileup at the interface of converging jets at the magnetopause. Geophysical Research Letters,46, 1937–1946. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080994

Panov, E. V., Baumjohann, W., Nakamura, R., Weygand, J. M., Giles, B. L., Russell, C. T., Reeves, G., Kubyshkina, M. V. (2019). Continent-wide R1/R2 current system and ohmic losses by broad dipolarization-injection fronts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 4064-4082. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026521

Poh, G., Slavin, J. A., Lu, S., Le, G., Ozturk, D. S., Sun, W.‐J., Zou, S., Eastwood, J. P., Nakamura, R., Baumjohann, W., Russell, C. T., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L., Pollock, C. J., Moore, T. E., Torbert, R. B., Burch, J. L. (2019).Dissipation of earthward propagatingflux rope through re‐reconnection withgeomagneticfield: An MMS case study.Journal of Geophysical Research: SpacePhysics,124, 7477–7493. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026451

Pritchard, K. R., Burch, J. L., Fuselier, S.A., Webster, J. M., Torbert, R. B., Argall,M. R., Broll, J., Genestreti, K. J., Giles, B. L., Le Contrel, O., Mukherjee, J., Phan, T. D., Rager, A. C., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J. (2019). Energy conversionand electron acceleration in themagnetopause reconnection diffusion region. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 10,274-10,282. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084636

Ren,Y., Dai, L., Li, W., Tao, X., Wang, C., Tang, B., Lavraud, B., Wu, Y., Burch, J. L., Giles, B., Le Contel, O., Torbert, R. B., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J., Ergun, R. E., Lindqvist, P.-A. (2019). Whistler waves driven by field-aligned streaming electrons in the near-Earth magnetotail reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters,46, 5045–5054. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083283

Roberts, O. W, Y. Narita,  R. Nakamura, Z. Vörös and D. Gershman (2019), Anisotropy of the Spectral Index in Ion Scale Compressible Turbulence: MMS Observations in the Magnetosheath, Front. Phys., 20.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2019.00184

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Schmid, D., Volwerk, M., Plaschke, F., Nakamura, R., Baumjohann, W., Wang, G., Wu, M. Y., Zhang, T. L. (2019). A statistical study on the properties of dips ahead of dipolarization fronts observed by MMS. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 139–150. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026062

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Teh, W.‐L. (2019), Two‐dimensional reconstruction of magnetic mirror structures with pressure anisotropy: Theory and application, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 1644–1650. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA026416

Teh, W.-L. and S. Zenitani (2019), Thermodynamic Properties of Mirror Structures in the Magnetosheath: MMS Observations and Double-polytropic MHD Simulations, The Astrophysical Journal, 885:22 (6pp). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4417

TenBarge, J. M., Ng, J., Juno, J., Wang, L., Hakim, A. H., & Bhattacharjee, A. (2019), An extended MHD study of the16 October 2015 MMS diffusion region crossing, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,124, 8474-8487. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026731

Tenfjord, P., Hesse, M., Norgren, C., Spinnangr, S. F., & Kolstø, H. ( 2019). The impact of oxygen on the reconnection rate. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 6195– 6203. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082175

Torkar, K., R. Nakamura, S. Wellenzohn, H. Jeszenszky, R. B. Torbert, Lindqvist, P.-A., Ergun, R. E., Giles, B. L. (2019), Improved Determination of Plasma Density Based on Spacecraft Potential of the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Under Active Potential Control, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 47(8). https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2019.2911425

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Vaverka, J., Pavlu, J., Nouzá, L. k.,Safrankova, J., Nemecek, Z.,Mann, I. B., et al. (2019), One-year analysis of dust impact-like events onto the MMS spacecraft, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 8179-8190. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027035

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Wang, Chih-Ping, Stephen A. Fuselier, Marc Hairston, Xiao-jia Zhang, Shasha Zou, Levon A. Avanov, Robert J. Strangeway, Narges Ahmadi, and Jacob Bortnik (2019), Event studies of O⁺ density variability within a quiet-time plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 124, 4168–4187 4168–4187. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026644

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Wang, Z., Fu, H. S., Liu, C. M., Liu, Y.Y., Cozzani, G., Giles, B. L., Hwang, K.-J., Burch, J. L. (2019). Electron distribution functions around a reconnection X‐line resolved by the FOTE method. Geophysical ResearchLetters,46, 1195–1204. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081708

Wei, Y. Y., S. Y. Huang, Z. J. Rong, Z. G. Yuan, K. Jiang, X. H. Deng, M. Zhou, H. S. Fu, X. D. Yu, S. B. Xu, L. H. He, and D. Deng (2019), Observations of Short-period Current Sheet Flapping Events in the Earth's Magnetotail, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 874, Number 2. http://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/AB0F28

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Yao, S. T., Shi, Q. Q., Yao, Z. H., Li, J. X., Yue, C., Tao, X., Degeling, A. W., Zong, Q. G., Wang, X. G., Tian, A. M., Russell, C. T., Zhou, X. Z., Guo, R. L., Rae, I. J., Fu, H. S., Zhang, H., Li, L., Le Contel, O., Torbert, R. B., Ergun, R. E., Lindqvist, P.-A., Pollock, C. J., Giles, B. L. (2019). Waves in kinetic‐scale magnetic dips: MMS observations in the magnetosheath. Geophysical Research Letters,46,523–533. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080696

Yao, S. T., Q. Q. Shi, Z. H. Yao, R. L. Guo, Q. G. Zong, X. G. Wang, A. W. Degeling, I. J. Rae, C. T. Russell, A. M. Tian, H. Zhang, H. Q. Hu, J. Liu, H. Liu, B. Li, and B. L. Giles (2019), Electron Mirror-mode Structure: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 881(2):L31 (6pp). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab3398

Yoo, J.,  S. Wang, E. Yerger,  J. Jara-Almonte,  H. Ji,  M. Yamada,  L.-J. Chen, W. Fox,  A. Goodman, and  A. Alt (2019), Whistler wave generation by electron temperature anisotropy during magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause, Physics of Plasmas 26, 052902 (2019).  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5094636

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Zhou, M., J. Huang, H. Y. Man, X. H. Deng, Z. H. Zhong, C. T. Russell, W. R. Paterson, B. L. Giles, P.-A. Lindqvist, Y. V. Khotyaintsev, J. L. Burch(2019), Electron-scale Vertical Current Sheets in a Bursty Bulk Flow in the Terrestrial Magnetotail, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 872 (2). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0424

Zhou, M., Man, H. Y., Zhong, Z. H., Deng, X. H., Pang, Y., Huang, S. Y., et al. (2019), Sub‐ion‐scale dynamics of the ion diffusion region in the magnetotail: MMS observations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 7898-7911. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA026817

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Ahmadi, N., Wilder, F. D., Ergun, R. E., Argall, M., Usanova, M. E., Breuillard, H., Malaspina, D., Paulson, K., Germaschewski, K., Eriksson, S., Goodrich, K., Torbert, R., Le Contel, O., Strangeway, R. J., Russell, C. T., Burch, J., Giles, B. (2018). Generation of electron whistler waves at the mirror mode magnetic holes: MMS observations and PIC simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,123, 6383–6393.https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025452

Akhavan-Tafti, M., Slavin, J. A., Le, G., Eastwood, J. P., Strangeway, R. J., Russell, C. T., Nakamure, R., Baumjohann, W., Torbert, R. B., Giles, B. L., Gershmann, D. J., Burch J. L. (2018). MMS examination of FTEs at the Earth’s subsolar magnetopause. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 1224–1241. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024681

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