Advanced methods for analyzing in-situ observations of magnetic reconnection
Abstract
There is ample evidence for magnetic reconnection in the solar system, but it is a nontrivial task to visualize, to determine the proper approaches and frames to study, and in turn to elucidate the physical processes at work in reconnection regions from in-situ measurements of plasma particles and electromagnetic fields. Here an overview is given of a variety of single- and multi-spacecraft data analysis techniques that are key to revealing the context of in-situ observations of magnetic reconnection in space and for detecting and analyzing the diffusion regions where ions and/or electrons are demagnetized. We focus on recent advances in the era of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, which has made electron-scale, multi-point measurements of magnetic reconnection in and around Earth's magnetosphere.
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@article{arxiv.2307.05867,
title = {Advanced methods for analyzing in-situ observations of magnetic reconnection},
author = {H. Hasegawa and M. R. Argall and N. Aunai and R. Bandyopadhyay and N. Bessho and I. J. Cohen and R. E. Denton and J. C. Dorelli and J. Egedal and S. A. Fuselier and P. Garnier and V. Genot and D. B. Graham and K. J. Hwang and Y. V. Khotyaintsev and D. B. Korovinskiy and B. Lavraud and Q. Lenouvel and T. C. Li and Y. -H. Liu and B. Michotte de Welle and T. K. M. Nakamura and D. S. Payne and S. M. Petrinec and Y. Qi and A. C. Rager and P. H. Reiff and J. M. Schroeder and J. R. Shuster and M. I. Sitnov and G. K. Stephens and M. Swisdak and A. M. Tian and R. B. Torbert and K. J. Trattner and S. Zenitani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.05867},
year = {2024}
}
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submitted to Space Science Reviews (116 pages, incl. 31 figures, 7 tables)