Search Results - "Vaivads, A."

Intermittent energy dissipation by turbulent reconnection by Fu, H. S., Vaivads, A., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., André, M., Cao, J. B., Olshevsky, V., Eastwood, J. P., Retinò, A.

“…Magnetic reconnection—the process responsible for many explosive phenomena in both nature and laboratory—is efficient at dissipating magnetic energy into…”
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Fermi and betatron acceleration of suprathermal electrons behind dipolarization fronts by Fu, H. S., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., André, M., Vaivads, A.

“…Two dipolarization front (DF) structures observed by Cluster in the Earth midtail region (XGSM ≈ −15 RE), showing respectively the feature of Fermi and…”
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Electron Acceleration at Earth's Bow Shock Due to Stochastic Shock Drift Acceleration by Lindberg, M., Vaivads, A., Amano, T., Raptis, S., Joshi, S.

“…We use the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) to study electron acceleration at Earth's quasi‐perpendicular bow shock to address the long‐standing…”
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MMS Observation of Two‐Step Electron Acceleration at Earth's Bow Shock by Lindberg, M., Vaivads, A., Raptis, S., Karlsson, T.

“…We use the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to observe a bi‐directional electron acceleration event in the electron foreshock upstream of Earth's…”
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Whistler emission in the separatrix regions of asymmetric magnetic reconnection by Graham, D. B., Vaivads, A., Khotyaintsev, Yu. V., André, M.

“…At Earth's dayside magnetopause asymmetric magnetic reconnection occurs between the cold dense magnetosheath plasma and the hot tenuous magnetospheric plasma,…”
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Efficient Electron Acceleration Driven by Flux Rope Evolution during Turbulent Reconnection by Wang, Z., Vaivads, A., Fu, H. S., Cao, J. B., Liu, Y. Y.

“…Abstract Magnetic flux ropes or magnetic islands are important structures responsible for electron acceleration and energy conversion during turbulent…”
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Occurrence rate of earthward-propagating dipolarization fronts by Fu, H. S., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Vaivads, A., André, M., Huang, S. Y.

“…The occurrence rate of earthward‐propagating dipolarization fronts (DFs) is investigated in this paper based on the 9 years (2001–2009) of Cluster 1 data. For…”
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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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Electric structure of dipolarization front at sub-proton scale by Fu, H. S., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Vaivads, A., André, M., Huang, S. Y.

“…Using Cluster data, we investigate the electric structure of a dipolarization front (DF) – the ion inertial length (c/ωpi) scale boundary in the Earth's…”
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Two-step Acceleration of Energetic Electrons at Magnetic Flux Ropes during Turbulent Reconnection by Wang, Z., Vaivads, A., Fu, H. S., Cao, J. B., Lindberg, M., Turner, D. L., Ergun, R. E., Liu, Y. Y.

“…Abstract Energetic electrons have been frequently observed during magnetic reconnection in the magnetotail. The acceleration process of the energetic electrons…”
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THE EFFECTS OF KINETIC INSTABILITIES ON SMALL-SCALE TURBULENCE IN EARTH'S MAGNETOSHEATH by Breuillard, H., Yordanova, E., Vaivads, A., Alexandrova, O.

“…ABSTRACT The Earth's magnetosheath is the region delimited by the bow shock and the magnetopause. It is characterized by highly turbulent fluctuations covering…”
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Evidence of Magnetic Nulls in Electron Diffusion Region by Fu, H. S., Cao, J. B., Cao, D., Wang, Z., Vaivads, A., Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Burch, J. L., Huang, S. Y.

“…Theoretically, magnetic reconnection—the process responsible for solar flares and magnetospheric substorms—occurs at the X‐line or radial null in the electron…”
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The FIELDS Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus Measuring the Coronal Plasma and Magnetic Field, Plasma Waves and Turbulence, and Radio Signatures of Solar Transients by Bale, S. D., Goetz, K., Harvey, P. R., Turin, P., Bonnell, J. W., Dudok de Wit, T., Ergun, R. E., MacDowall, R. J., Pulupa, M., Choi, M. K., Farrell, W. M., Goldstein, M., Klimchuk, J. A., Odom, J., Oliversen, R., Sheppard, D. A., Szabo, A.

“…NASA's Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission will make the first in situ measurements of the solar corona and the birthplace of the solar wind. The FIELDS instrument…”
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Energy conversion at dipolarization fronts by Khotyaintsev, Yu. V., Divin, A., Vaivads, A., André, M., Markidis, S.

“…We use multispacecraft observations by Cluster in the Earth's magnetotail and 3‐D particle‐in‐cell simulations to investigate conversion of electromagnetic…”
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Universality of Lower Hybrid Waves at Earth's Magnetopause by Graham, D. B., Khotyaintsev, Yu. V., Norgren, C., Vaivads, A., André, M., Drake, J. F., Egedal, J., Zhou, M., Le Contel, O., Webster, J. M., Lavraud, B., Kacem, I., Génot, V., Jacquey, C., Rager, A. C., Gershman, D. J., Burch, J. L., Ergun, R. E.

“…Waves around the lower hybrid frequency are frequently observed at Earth's magnetopause and readily reach very large amplitudes. Determining the properties of…”
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Electrostatic solitary waves and electrostatic waves at the magnetopause by Graham, D. B., Khotyaintsev, Yu. V., Vaivads, A., André, M.

“…Electrostatic solitary waves (ESWs) are characterized by localized bipolar electric fields parallel to the magnetic field and are frequently observed in space…”
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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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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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Evolution of the lower hybrid drift instability at reconnection jet front by Divin, A., Khotyaintsev, Yu. V., Vaivads, A., André, M., Markidis, S., Lapenta, G.

“…We investigate current‐driven modes developing at jet fronts during collisionless reconnection. Initial evolution of the reconnection is simulated using…”
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Multispacecraft Analysis of Electron Holes by Steinvall, K., Khotyaintsev, Yu. V., Graham, D. B., Vaivads, A., Lindqvist, P.‐A., Russell, C. T., Burch, J. L.

“…Electron holes (EHs) are nonlinear electrostatic structures in plasmas. Most previous in situ studies of EHs have been limited to single‐ and two‐spacecraft…”
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