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The Earth's magnetotail, located on the night side of the magnetosphere, is a dynamic region where magnetic field energy is released and converted into plasma heating, particle acceleration, and kinetic energy through magnetic reconnection.…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Weiqin Sun , Xiao-Jia Zhang , Anton V. Artemyev , Xi Lu , Xinlin Li , Yang Mei , Zheng Xiang , Declan O'Brien

Magnetic reconnection plays an important role in converting energy while modifying field topology. This process takes place in varied plasma environments in which the transport of magnetic flux is intrinsic. Identifying active magnetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Yi Qi , Tak Chu Li , Christopher T. Russell , Robert E. Ergun , Ying-Dong Jia , Mark Hubbert

The problem of the linear microtearing mode in a slab magnetised plasma, and its connection to kinetic reconnecting modes, is addressed. Electrons are described using a novel hybrid fluid-kinetic model that captures electron heating, ions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 A Zocco , N F Loureiro , D Dickinson , R Numata , C M Roach

Resonances with electromagnetic whistler-mode waves are the primary driver for the formation and dynamics of energetic electron fluxes in various space plasma systems, including shock waves and planetary radiation belts. The basic and most…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 A. V. Artemyev , A. I. Neishtadt , A. A. Vasiliev , D. Mourenas

We present a detailed multi-wavelength analysis and interpretation of the evolution of an M7.6 flare on October 24, 2003. The X-ray observations of the flare taken from the RHESSI spacecraft reveal two phases of the flare evolution. The…

Wave--particle interactions play a crucial role in transferring energy between electromagnetic fields and charged particles in space and astrophysical plasmas. Despite the prevalence of different electromagnetic waves in space, there is…

The magnetic phase diagrams of RMnO3 (R = Er, Yb, Tm, Ho) are investigated up to 14 Tesla via magnetic and dielectric measurements. The stability range of the AFM order below the Neel temperature of the studied RMnO3 extends to far higher…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 F. Yen , C. dela Cruz , B. Lorenz , E. Galstyan , Y. Y. Sun , M. Gospodinov , C. W. Chu

In the course of its operation, the EGRET experiment detected high-energy gamma ray sources at energies above 100 MeV over the whole sky. In this communication, we search for large-scale anisotropy patterns among the catalogued EGRET…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis Anchordoqui , Thomas McCauley , Thomas Paul , Olaf Reimer , Diego F. Torres

Solar flares are widely accepted to be powered by magnetic reconnection that involves complex dynamics in various scales. The flare supra-arcade and loop-top region, directly impacted by fast reconnection downflows, contains a wealth of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves

It was recently proposed that the electron-frame dissipation measure, the energy transfer from the electromagnetic field to plasmas in the electron's rest frame, identifies the dissipation region of collisionless magnetic reconnection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-31 Seiji Zenitani , Michael Hesse , Alex Klimas , Carrie Black , Masha Kuznetsova

The efficiency of energy conversion during magnetic reconnection is related to the reconnection rate. While the stable reconnection rate has been studied extensively, its growth between the time of reconnection onset and the peak…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 D. S. Payne , R. B. Torbert , K. Germaschewski , T. G. Forbes , J. R. Shuster

In this study we use the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to investigate the electron acceleration and thermalization occurring along the magnetic reconnection separatrices in the magnetotail. We find that initially cold electron…

We study the energy-release process in the confined X1.6 flare that occurred on 22 October 2014 in AR 12192. Magnetic-reconnection rates and reconnection fluxes are derived from three different data sets: space-based data from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 A. M. Veronig , W. Polanec

A GOES M1.9 flare took place in active region AR 11153 on February 9,2011. With the resolution of 200 kHz and a time cadence of 80 ms, the reverse-drifting (RS) type III bursts, intermittent sequence of type U bursts, drifting pulsation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Guannan Gao , Qiangwei Cai , Shaojie Guo , Min Wang

Energy dissipation in collisionless plasmas is a longstanding fundamental physics problem. Although it is well known that magnetic reconnection and turbulence are coupled and transport energy from system-size scales to sub-proton scales,…

We present the results of a set of three-dimensional numerical simulations of magnetic flux emergence from below the photosphere into the corona that include a uniform and horizontal coronal magnetic field mimicking a pre-existing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Galsgaard , F. Moreno-Insertis , V. Archontis , A. Hood

For the first time, we statistically study the properties of ephemeral regions (ERs) and quantitatively determine their parameters at the emergence stage based on a sample of 2988 ERs observed by the \emph{Solar Dynamics Observatory}.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang

We study magnetic reconnection events in a turbulent plasma within the two-fluid theory. By identifying the diffusive regions, we measure the reconnection rates as function of the conductivity and current sheet thickness. We have found that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-06 Nicola Offeddu , Miller Mendoza

Long-period radio transients (LPRTs) are highly polarised, coherent radio sources with periods of minutes to hours and bursts typically lasting 10 to 100 s. Here we consider the apparently isolated subclass of LPRTs and argue that electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 Lilia Ferrario

Multiwavelength observations of the propagating disturbances (PDs), discovered by Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), are analyzed to determine its driving mechanism and physical nature. Two magnetic…

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