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Systematic Uncertainties in Plasma Parameters Reported by the Fast Plasma Investigation on NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission by Gershman, Daniel J., Dorelli, John C., Avanov, Levon A., Gliese, Ulrik, Barrie, Alexander, Schiff, Conrad, Da Silva, Daniel E., Paterson, William R., Giles, Barbara L., Pollock, Craig J.

“…Systematic uncertainties in the conversion of measured counts to phase space density by charged particle instrumentation result in errors in reported plasma…”
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Wave-Particle Energy Exchange Directly Observed in a Kinetic Alfven-Branch Wave by Gershman, Daniel J., Vinas, Adolfo F, Dorelli, John C, Boardsen, Scott A, Avanov, Levon A, Bellan, Paul M., Schwartz, Steven J., Lavraud, Benoit, Coffey, Victoria N, Chandler, Michael O, Saito, Yoshifumi, Paterson, William R, Fuselier, Stephen A., Ergun, Robert E, Strangeway, Robert J, Russell, Christopher T., Giles, Barbara L, Pollock, Craig J., Torbert, Roy B, Burch, James L

“…Alfven waves are fundamental plasma wave modes that permeate the universe. At small kinetic scales they provide a critical mechanism for the transfer of energy…”
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Spacecraft and Instrument Photoelectrons Measured by the Dual Electron Spectrometers on MMS by Gershman, Daniel J., Avanov, Levon A., Boardsen, Scott A., Dorelli, John C., Gliese, Ulrik B., Barrie, Alexander C., Schiff, Conrad, Paterson, William R., Torbert, Roy B., Giles, Barbara L., Pollock, Craig J.

“…Secondary electrons are continuously generated via photoemission from sunlit spacecraft and instrument surfaces. These particles can subsequently contaminate…”
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Separator reconnection at Earth's dayside magnetopause under generic northward interplanetary magnetic field conditions by Dorelli, John C., Bhattacharjee, Amitava, Raeder, Joachim

“…We investigate the global properties of magnetic reconnection at the dayside terrestrial magnetopause under generic northward interplanetary magnetic field…”
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Generalized Time‐Series Analysis for In Situ Spacecraft Observations: Anomaly Detection and Data Prioritization Using Principal Components Analysis and Unsupervised Clustering by Finley, Matthew G., Martinez‐Ledesma, Miguel, Paterson, William R., Argall, Matthew R., Miles, David M., Dorelli, John C., Zesta, Eftyhia

“…In situ spacecraft observations are critical to our study and understanding of the various phenomena that couple mass, momentum, and energy throughout…”
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Does the Solar Wind Electric Field Control the Reconnection Rate at Earth's Subsolar Magnetopause? by Dorelli, John C.

“…We demonstrate that the reconnection rate at the subsolar magnetopause is stronglycontrolled by the solar wind electric field and depends weakly on the local…”
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Whistler-mediated magnetic reconnection in large systems: Magnetic flux pileup and the formation of thin current sheets by Dorelli, John C., Birn, Joachim

“…We compute numerical solutions of the resistive Hall MHD equations corresponding to pairwise magnetic island coalescence. The simulation results can be…”
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Extended Magnetohydrodynamics with Embedded Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Ganymede's Magnetosphere by Toth, Gabor, Jia, Xianzhe, Markidis, Stefano, Peng, Ivy Bo, Chen, Yuxi, Daldorff, Lars K. S., Tenishev, Valeriy M., Borovikov, Dmitry, Haiducek, John D., Gombosi, Tamas I., Glocer, Alex, Dorelli, John C.

“…We have recently developed a new modeling capability to embed the implicit particle-in-cell (PIC) model iPIC3D into the…”
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Magnetotail reconnection asymmetries in an ion-scale, Earth-like magnetosphere by Bard, Christopher M., Dorelli, John C.

“…We use a newly developed global Hall magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code to investigate how reconnection drives magnetotail asymmetries in small, ion-scale…”
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Editorial: Ionospheric signatures of magnetic reconnection in Earth’s magnetosphere by John C. Dorelli, Hyunju Connor, Steve Petrinec, Kyle Murphy

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The calculation of moment uncertainties from velocity distribution functions with random errors by Gershman, Daniel J., Dorelli, John C., F.-Viñas, Adolfo, Pollock, Craig J.

“…Instrumentation that detects individual plasma particles is susceptible to random counting errors. These errors propagate into the calculations of moments of…”
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A new look at driven magnetic reconnection at the terrestrial subsolar magnetopause by Dorelli, John C., Hesse, Michael, Kuznetsova, Maria M., Rastaetter, Lutz, Raeder, Joachim

“…The physics of steady driven magnetic reconnection at Earth's subsolar magnetopause is addressed. Three‐dimensional, global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)…”
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Ion Kinetics in a Hot Flow Anomaly: MMS Observations by Schwartz, Steven J, Avanov, Levon, Turner, Drew, Zhang, Hui, Gingell, Imogen, Eastwood, Jonathan P, Gershman, Daniel J, Johlander, Andreas, Russell, Christopher T, Burch, James L, Dorelli, John C, Eriksson, Stefan, Ergun, Robert E, Fuselier, Stephen A, Giles, Barbara L, Goodrich, Katherine A, Khotyaintsev, Yuri V, Lavraud, Benoit, Lindqvist, Per‐Arne, Oka, Mitsuo, Phan, Tai‐Duc, Strangeway, Robert J, Trattner, Karlheinz J, Torbert, Roy B, Vaivads, Andris, Wei, Hanying, Wilder, Frederick

“…Hot Flow Anomalies (HFAs) are transients observed at planetary bow shocks, formed by the shock interaction with a convected interplanetary current sheet. The…”
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Electron Dynamics in a Subproton-Gyroscale Magnetic Hole by Gershman, Daniel J., Dorelli, John C., Vinas, Adolfo F., Avanov, Levon A., Gliese, Ulrik B., Barrie, Alexander C., Coffey, Victoria, Chandler, Michael, Dickson, Charles, MacDonald, Elizabeth A., Salo, Chad, Holland, Matthew, Saito, Yoshifumi, Sauvaud, Jean-Andre, Lavraud, Benoit, Paterson, William R., Torbert, Roy, Chen, Li-Jen, Goodrich, Katherine, Russell, Christopher T., Strangeway, Robert J., Giles, Barbara L., Pollock, Craig J., Moore, Thomas E., Burch, James L.

“…Magnetic holes are ubiquitous in space plasmas, occurring in the solar wind, downstream of planetary bow shocks, and inside the magnetosphere. Recently,…”
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Ion-Scale Structure in Mercury's Magnetopause Reconnection Diffusion Region by Gershman, Daniel J., Dorelli, John C., DiBraccio, Gina A., Raines, Jim M., Slavin, James A., Poh, Gangkai, Zurbuchen, Thomas H.

“…The strength and time dependence of the electric field in a magnetopause diffusion region relate to the rate of magnetic reconnection between the solar wind…”
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Parallel electron heating in the magnetospheric inflow region by Wang, Shan, Chen, Li‐Jen, Hesse, Michael, Wilson, Lynn B., Bessho, Naoki, Gershman, Daniel J., Ergun, Robert E., Phan, Tai D., Burch, James L., Dorelli, John C., Giles, Barbara, Torbert, Roy B., Pollock, Craig J., Russell, Christopher T., Strangeway, Robert, Avanov, Levon, Lavraud, Benoit, Moore, Thomas E.

“…We analyzed 20 reconnection events observed by the Magnetosphere MultiScale mission, finding that in a subregion of the magnetospheric inflow, the electron…”
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The parameterization of microchannel‐plate‐based detection systems by Gershman, Daniel J., Gliese, Ulrik, Dorelli, John C., Avanov, Levon A., Barrie, Alexander C., Chornay, Dennis J., MacDonald, Elizabeth A., Holland, Matthew P., Giles, Barbara L., Pollock, Craig J.

“…The most common instrument for low‐energy plasmas consists of a top‐hat electrostatic analyzer (ESA) geometry coupled with a microchannel‐plate‐based…”
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Correction to “Separator reconnection at Earth's dayside magnetopause under generic northward interplanetary magnetic field conditions” by Dorelli, John C., Bhattacharjee, Amitava, Raeder, Joachim

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Electron heat flow in the solar corona: Implications of non-Maxwellian velocity distributions, the solar gravitational field, and Coulomb collisions by Dorelli, John C., Scudder, Jack D.

“…It has long been known that weak electron temperature gradients in fully ionized plamas (satisfying λ ∣∇Te∣/Te ≲ 10−4, where λe is the electron mean free path…”
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Electron heat flow carried by Kappa Distributions in the solar corona by Dorelli, John C., Scudder, Jack D.

“…We generalize the Spitzer and Härm [1953] description of electron heat flow to model the effects of the electron velocity distribution power law tails which…”
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