Search Results - "Burch, James L."
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Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of Markov Turbulence on Kinetic Scales
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2023)“…Abstract In our previous studies we have examined solar wind and magnetospheric plasma turbulence, including Markovian character on large inertial…”
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Observational Evidence of Magnetic Reconnection in the Terrestrial Bow Shock Transition Region
Published in Geophysical research letters (28-01-2019)“…We report evidence of magnetic reconnection in the transition region of the Earth's bow shock when the angle between the shock normal and the immediate…”
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Statistics of Kinetic Dissipation in the Earth’s Magnetosheath: MMS Observations
Published in Physical review letters (26-06-2020)“…A familiar problem in space and astrophysical plasmas is to understand how dissipation and heating occurs. These effects are often attributed to the cascade of…”
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Collisionless relaxation of a disequilibrated current sheet and implications for bifurcated structures
Published in Nature communications (18-06-2021)“…Current sheets are ubiquitous plasma structures that play the crucial role of being energy sources for various magnetic phenomena. Although a plethora of…”
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MMS Observations and Hybrid Simulations of Surface Ripples at a Marginally Quasi‐Parallel Shock
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Space physics (01-11-2017)“…Simulations and observations of collisionless shocks have shown that deviations of the nominal local shock normal orientation, that is, surface waves or…”
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Birth of a comet magnetosphere: A spring of water ions
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (23-01-2015)“…The Rosetta mission shall accompany comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from a heliocentric distance of >3.6 astronomical units through perihelion passage at 1.25…”
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High‐Resolution Measurements of the Cross‐Shock Potential, Ion Reflection, and Electron Heating at an Interplanetary Shock by MMS
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Space physics (01-06-2019)“…The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft obtained unprecedented high‐time resolution multipoint particle and field measurements of an interplanetary…”
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Self-consistent kinetic model of nested electron- and ion-scale magnetic cavities in space plasmas
Published in Nature communications (05-11-2020)“…NASA’s Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) mission is designed to explore the proton- and electron-gyroscale kinetics of plasma turbulence where the bulk of…”
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First observation of fluid-like eddy-dominant bursty bulk flow turbulence in the Earth’s tail plasma sheet
Published in Scientific reports (06-11-2023)“…Turbulence is a ubiquitous phenomenon in neutral and conductive fluids. According to classical theory, turbulence is a rotating flow containing vortices of…”
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Rippled Electron‐Scale Structure of a Dipolarization Front
Published in Geophysical research letters (28-11-2018)“…We use the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to investigate electron‐scale structures at a dipolarization front. The four spacecraft are separated by electron…”
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Investigation of a Magnetic Reconnection Event with Extraordinarily High Particle Energization in Magnetotail Turbulence
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-02-2024)“…Abstract Magnetic reconnection and plasma turbulence are ubiquitous and key processes in the Universe. These two processes are suggested to be intrinsically…”
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Structure of the Current Sheet in the 11 July 2017 Electron Diffusion Region Event
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Space physics (01-02-2019)“…The structure of the current sheet along the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) orbit is examined during the 11 July 2017 Electron Diffusion Region (EDR) event…”
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Plasma Density Estimates From Spacecraft Potential Using MMS Observations in the Dayside Magnetosphere
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Space physics (01-04-2018)“…Using spacecraft potential observations with and without active spacecraft potential control (on/off) from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, we…”
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Turbulent current sheet frozen in bursty bulk flow: observation and model
Published in Scientific reports (15-09-2022)“…Utilizing four-point joint observations by Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft (MMS), we investigate the main features of the current sheet frozen in (CSFI)…”
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Multiscale Currents Observed by MMS in the Flow Braking Region
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Space physics (01-02-2018)“…We present characteristics of current layers in the off‐equatorial near‐Earth plasma sheet boundary observed with high time‐resolution measurements from the…”
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Two‐Dimensional Velocity of the Magnetic Structure Observed on July 11, 2017 by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Space physics (01-03-2021)“…In order to determine particle velocities and electric field in the frame of the magnetic structure, one first needs to determine the velocity of the magnetic…”
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Statistical Study of the Properties of Magnetosheath Lion Roars
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Space physics (01-07-2018)“…Lion roars are narrowband whistler wave emissions that have been observed in several environments, such as planetary magnetosheaths, the Earth's magnetosphere,…”
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MMS Measurements and Modeling of Peculiar Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves
Published in Geophysical research letters (16-11-2019)“…Orbiting Earth's dayside outer magnetosphere on 29 September 2015, the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites measured plasma composition, simultaneous…”
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On Multiple Hall‐Like Electron Currents and Tripolar Guide Magnetic Field Perturbations During Kelvin‐Helmholtz Waves
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Space physics (01-02-2018)“…Two magnetopause current sheet crossings with tripolar guide magnetic field signatures were observed by multiple Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft…”
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Two-Scale Ion Meandering Caused by the Polarization Electric Field During Asymmetric Reconnection
Published in Geophysical research letters (16-08-2016)“…Ion velocity distribution functions (VDFs) from a particle-in-cell simulation of asymmetric reconnection are investigated to reveal a two-scale structure of…”
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