Search Results - "Torbert, R. B."

The Spin-Plane Double Probe Electric Field Instrument for MMS by Lindqvist, P.-A., Olsson, G., Torbert, R. B., King, B., Granoff, M., Rau, D., Needell, G., Turco, S., Dors, I., Beckman, P., Macri, J., Frost, C., Salwen, J., Eriksson, A., Åhlén, L., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Porter, J., Lappalainen, K., Ergun, R. E., Wermeer, W., Tucker, S.

“…The Spin-plane double probe instrument (SDP) is part of the FIELDS instrument suite of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS). Together with the Axial…”
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The occurrence and wave properties of H+-, He+-, and O+-band EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes by Saikin, A. A., Zhang, J.-C., Allen, R. C., Smith, C. W., Kistler, L. M., Spence, H. E., Torbert, R. B., Kletzing, C. A., Jordanova, V. K.

“…We perform a statistical study of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves detected by the Van Allen Probes mission to investigate the spatial distribution…”
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Rippled Quasiperpendicular Shock Observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft by Johlander, A, Schwartz, S J, Vaivads, A, Khotyaintsev, Yu V, Gingell, I, Peng, I B, Markidis, S, Lindqvist, P-A, Ergun, R E, Marklund, G T, Plaschke, F, Magnes, W, Strangeway, R J, Russell, C T, Wei, H, Torbert, R B, Paterson, W R, Gershman, D J, Dorelli, J C, Avanov, L A, Lavraud, B, Saito, Y, Giles, B L, Pollock, C J, Burch, J L

“…Collisionless shock nonstationarity arising from microscale physics influences shock structure and particle acceleration mechanisms. Nonstationarity has been…”
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The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) on RBSP by Kletzing, C. A., Kurth, W. S., Acuna, M., MacDowall, R. J., Torbert, R. B., Averkamp, T., Bodet, D., Bounds, S. R., Chutter, M., Connerney, J., Crawford, D., Dolan, J. S., Dvorsky, R., Hospodarsky, G. B., Howard, J., Jordanova, V., Johnson, R. A., Kirchner, D. L., Mokrzycki, B., Needell, G., Odom, J., Mark, D., Pfaff, R., Phillips, J. R., Piker, C. W., Remington, S. L., Rowland, D., Santolik, O., Schnurr, R., Sheppard, D., Smith, C. W., Thorne, R. M., Tyler, J.

“…The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) investigation on the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (now named the Van Allen…”
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Observational evidence of accelerating electron holes and their effects on passing ions by Dong, Yue, Yuan, Zhigang, Huang, Shiyong, Xue, Zuxiang, Yu, Xiongdong, Pollock, C. J., Torbert, R. B., Burch, J. L.

“…As a universal structure in space plasma, electron holes represent an obvious signature of nonlinear process. Although the theory has a 60-year history,…”
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Coalescence of Macroscopic Flux Ropes at the Subsolar Magnetopause: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations by Zhou, M, Berchem, J, Walker, R J, El-Alaoui, M, Deng, X, Cazzola, E, Lapenta, G, Goldstein, M L, Paterson, W R, Pang, Y, Ergun, R E, Lavraud, B, Liang, H, Russell, C T, Strangeway, R J, Zhao, C, Giles, B L, Pollock, C J, Lindqvist, P-A, Marklund, G, Wilder, F D, Khotyaintsev, Y V, Torbert, R B, Burch, J L

“…We report unambiguous in situ observation of the coalescence of macroscopic flux ropes by the magnetospheric multiscale (MMS) mission. Two coalescing flux…”
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Electron‐Scale Measurements of Dipolarization Front by Liu, C. M., Fu, H. S., Xu, Y., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Burch, J. L., Ergun, R. E., Gershman, D. G., Torbert, R. B.

“…Dipolarization front (DF)—a sharp boundary with scale of ion inertial length (c/ωpi) in the Earth's magnetotail—can also have fine structures at electron scale…”
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Polynomial Reconstruction of the Reconnection Magnetic Field Observed by Multiple Spacecraft by Denton, R. E., Torbert, R. B., Hasegawa, H., Dors, I., Genestreti, K. J., Argall, M. R., Gershman, D., Le Contel, O., Burch, J. L., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J., Giles, B. L., Fischer, D.

“…We describe methods for polynomial reconstruction of the magnetic field close to a cluster of spacecraft and apply that to reconstruction of the magnetic field…”
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Magnetotail reconnection onset caused by electron kinetics with a strong external driver by Lu, San, Wang, Rongsheng, Lu, Quanming, Angelopoulos, V., Nakamura, R., Artemyev, A. V., Pritchett, P. L., Liu, T. Z., Zhang, X.-J., Baumjohann, W., Gonzalez, W., Rager, A. C., Torbert, R. B., Giles, B. L., Gershman, D. J., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J., Qi, Y., Ergun, R. E., Lindqvist, P.-A., Burch, J. L., Wang, Shui

“…Magnetotail reconnection plays a crucial role in explosive energy conversion in geospace. Because of the lack of in-situ spacecraft observations, the onset…”
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The Search-Coil Magnetometer for MMS by Le Contel, O., Leroy, P., Roux, A., Coillot, C., Alison, D., Bouabdellah, A., Mirioni, L., Meslier, L., Galic, A., Vassal, M. C., Torbert, R. B., Needell, J., Rau, D., Dors, I., Ergun, R. E., Westfall, J., Summers, D., Wallace, J., Magnes, W., Valavanoglou, A., Olsson, G., Chutter, M., Macri, J., Myers, S., Turco, S., Nolin, J., Bodet, D., Rowe, K., Tanguy, M., de la Porte, B.

“…The tri-axial search-coil magnetometer (SCM) belongs to the FIELDS instrumentation suite on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission (Torbert et al. in…”
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How Accurately Can We Measure the Reconnection Rate EM for the MMS Diffusion Region Event of 11 July 2017? by Genestreti, K. J., Nakamura, T. K. M., Nakamura, R., Denton, R. E., Torbert, R. B., Burch, J. L., Plaschke, F., Fuselier, S. A., Ergun, R. E., Giles, B. L., Russell, C. T.

“…We investigate the accuracy with which the reconnection electric field EM can be determined from in situ plasma data. We study the magnetotail electron…”
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Spacecraft Observations and Analytic Theory of Crescent-Shaped Electron Distributions in Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection by Egedal, J, Le, A, Daughton, W, Wetherton, B, Cassak, P A, Chen, L-J, Lavraud, B, Torbert, R B, Dorelli, J, Gershman, D J, Avanov, L A

“…Supported by a kinetic simulation, we derive an exclusion energy parameter E_{X} providing a lower kinetic energy bound for an electron to cross from one…”
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Electron Heating by Debye-Scale Turbulence in Guide-Field Reconnection by Khotyaintsev, Yu V, Graham, D B, Steinvall, K, Alm, L, Vaivads, A, Johlander, A, Norgren, C, Li, W, Divin, A, Fu, H S, Hwang, K-J, Burch, J L, Ahmadi, N, Le Contel, O, Gershman, D J, Russell, C T, Torbert, R B

“…We report electrostatic Debye-scale turbulence developing within the diffusion region of asymmetric magnetopause reconnection with a moderate guide field using…”
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The dependence on geomagnetic conditions and solar wind dynamic pressure of the spatial distributions of EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes by Saikin, A. A., Zhang, J.‐C., Smith, C. W., Spence, H. E., Torbert, R. B., Kletzing, C. A.

“…A statistical examination on the spatial distributions of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves observed by the Van Allen Probes against varying levels of…”
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Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellite Observations of Parallel Electron Acceleration in Magnetic Field Reconnection by Fermi Reflection from Time Domain Structures by Mozer, F. S., Agapitov, O. A., Artemyev, A., Burch, J. L., Ergun, R. E., Giles, B. L., Mourenas, D., Torbert, R. B., Phan, T. D., Vasko, I.

“…The same time domain structures (TDS) have been observed on two Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellites near Earth's dayside magnetopause. These TDS, traveling…”
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Lower hybrid waves in the ion diffusion and magnetospheric inflow regions by Graham, D. B., Khotyaintsev, Yu. V., Norgren, C., Vaivads, A., André, M., Toledo‐Redondo, S., Lindqvist, P.‐A., Marklund, G. T., Ergun, R. E., Paterson, W. R., Gershman, D. J., Giles, B. L., Pollock, C. J., Dorelli, J. C., Avanov, L. A., Lavraud, B., Saito, Y., Magnes, W., Russell, C. T., Strangeway, R. J., Torbert, R. B., Burch, J. L.

“…The role and properties of lower hybrid waves in the ion diffusion region and magnetospheric inflow region of asymmetric reconnection are investigated using…”
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Instability of Agyrotropic Electron Beams near the Electron Diffusion Region by Graham, D B, Khotyaintsev, Yu V, Vaivads, A, Norgren, C, André, M, Webster, J M, Burch, J L, Lindqvist, P-A, Ergun, R E, Torbert, R B, Paterson, W R, Gershman, D J, Giles, B L, Magnes, W, Russell, C T

“…During a magnetopause crossing the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft encountered an electron diffusion region (EDR) of asymmetric reconnection. The EDR is…”
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Magnetospheric Multiscale Dayside Reconnection Electron Diffusion Region Events by Webster, J. M., Burch, J. L., Reiff, P. H., Daou, A. G., Genestreti, K. J., Graham, D. B., Torbert, R. B., Ergun, R. E., Sazykin, S. Y., Marshall, A., Allen, R. C., Chen, L.‐J., Wang, S., Phan, T. D., Giles, B. L., Moore, T. E., Fuselier, S. A., Cozzani, G., Russell, C. T., Eriksson, S., Rager, A. C., Broll, J. M., Goodrich, K., Wilder, F.

“…We use high‐resolution data from dayside passes of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to create for the first time a comprehensive listing of…”
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Magnetic Reconnection, Turbulence, and Particle Acceleration: Observations in the Earth's Magnetotail by Ergun, R. E., Goodrich, K. A., Wilder, F. D., Ahmadi, N., Holmes, J. C., Eriksson, S., Stawarz, J. E., Nakamura, R., Genestreti, K. J., Hesse, M., Burch, J. L., Torbert, R. B., Phan, T. D., Schwartz, S. J., Eastwood, J. P., Strangeway, R. J., Le Contel, O., Russell, C. T., Argall, M. R., Lindqvist, P.‐A., Chen, L. J., Cassak, P. A., Giles, B. L., Dorelli, J. C., Gershman, D., Leonard, T. W., Lavraud, B., Retino, A., Matthaeus, W., Vaivads, A.

“…We report observations of turbulent dissipation and particle acceleration from large‐amplitude electric fields (E) associated with strong magnetic field (B)…”
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Measurement of the Magnetic Reconnection Rate in the Earth's Magnetotail by Nakamura, T. K. M., Genestreti, K. J., Liu, Y.‐H., Nakamura, R., Teh, W.‐L., Hasegawa, H., Daughton, W., Hesse, M., Torbert, R. B., Burch, J. L., Giles, B. L.

“…In the Earth's magnetotail, magnetic reconnection releases stored magnetic energy and drives magnetospheric convection. The rate at which magnetic flux is…”
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