Rapid magnetic reconnection in the Earth’s magnetosphere mediated by whistler waves

Nature ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 410 (6828) ◽  
pp. 557-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. H. Deng ◽  
H. Matsumoto
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Whistler Waves ◽  
Earth’S Magnetosphere ◽  
Earth's Magnetosphere

scholarly journals Magnetic reconnection X-line retreat associated with dipolarization of the Earth's magnetosphere

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (20) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Oka ◽  
T.-D. Phan ◽  
J. P. Eastwood ◽  
V. Angelopoulos ◽  
N. A. Murphy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Earth’S Magnetosphere ◽  
Earth's Magnetosphere

scholarly journals Impacts of ionospheric ions on magnetic reconnection and Earth's magnetosphere dynamics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Toledo‐Redondo ◽  
M. André ◽  
N. Aunai ◽  
C. R. Chappell ◽  
J. Dargent ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Earth’S Magnetosphere ◽  
Earth's Magnetosphere

Parametric decay of oblique whistler waves in the Earth's magnetosphere: 2-D PIC simulations

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 072901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yangguang Ke ◽  
Xinliang Gao ◽  
Quanming Lu ◽  
Yufei Hao ◽  
Shui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Whistler Waves ◽  
Earth’S Magnetosphere ◽  
Parametric Decay ◽  
Earth's Magnetosphere

scholarly journals Solar wind interaction with the Earth's magnetosphere: the role of reconnection in the presence of a large scale sheared flow

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Califano ◽  
M. Faganello ◽  
F. Pegoraro ◽  
F. Valentini
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Solar Wind ◽  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Magnetic Layer ◽  
Magnetic Islands ◽  
Solar Wind Interaction ◽  
Earth’S Magnetosphere ◽  
Earth's Magnetosphere

Abstract. The Earth's magnetosphere and solar wind environment is a laboratory of excellence for the study of the physics of collisionless magnetic reconnection. At low latitude magnetopause, magnetic reconnection develops as a secondary instability due to the stretching of magnetic field lines advected by large scale Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices. In particular, reconnection takes place in the sheared magnetic layer that forms between adjacent vortices during vortex pairing. The process generates magnetic islands with typical size of the order of the ion inertial length, much smaller than the MHD scale of the vortices and much larger than the electron inertial length. The process of reconnection and island formation sets up spontaneously, without any need for special boundary conditions or initial conditions, and independently of the initial in-plane magnetic field topology, whether homogeneous or sheared.

Observational Aspects of Magnetic Reconnection at the Earth’s Magnetosphere

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitor M. Souza ◽  
Daiki Koga ◽  
Walter D. Gonzalez ◽  
Flavia R. Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Reconnection ◽  
Earth’S Magnetosphere ◽  
Earth's Magnetosphere
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