NASA MMS Observations

J. Egedal, J. Ng, A. Le, W. Daughton, B. Wetherton, and J. Dorelli, Pressure Tensor Elements Breaking the Frozen-In Law During Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetotail, Phys. Rev. Lett, in press, 2019

B.A. Wetherson, J. Egedal, A. Le, W. Daughton, Validation of anisotropic electron fluid closure through in situ spacecraft observations of magnetic reconnection, Geophys. Res. Lett 46, 2019; https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083119

M. Yamada, L.-J. Chen, J. Yoo, S. Wang, W. Fox, J. Jara-Almonte, H. Ji, W. Daughton, A. Le, J. Burch, B. Giles, M. Hesse, T. Moore & R. Torbert, The two-fluid dynamics and energetics of the asymmetric magnetic reconnection in laboratory and space plasmas, Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07680-2, 2018

J. Egedal, A. Le, W. Daughton, B. Wetherton, P. A. Cassak, J.L. Burch, B. Lavraud, J. Dorelli, D.J. Gershman, and L. A. Avanov, Spacecraft observations of oblique electron beams breaking the frozen-in law during asymmetric reconnection, Physical Review Letters 120, 055101, 2018

T.K.M. Nakamura, H. Hasegawa, W. Daughton, S. Eriksson, W. Li and R. Nakamura, Turbulent mass transfer caused by vortex induced reconnection in collisionless magnetospheric plasmas, Nature Communications 8, 1582, 2017: DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01579-0

Le, A., Daughton, W., Ohia, O., Chen, L. J., Liu, Y. H., Wang, S., ... & Bird, R. (2018). Drift turbulence, particle transport, and anomalous dissipation at the reconnecting magnetopause. Physics of Plasmas, 25(6), 062103.

Le, A., Daughton, W., Chen, L. J., & Egedal, J. (2017). Enhanced electron mixing and heating in 3‐D asymmetric reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(5), 2096-2104.

Egedal, J., Le, A., Daughton, W., Wetherton, B., Cassak, P. A., Chen, L. J., ... & Avanov, L. A. (2016). Spacecraft observations and analytic theory of crescent-shaped electron distributions in asymmetric magnetic reconnection. Physical review letters, 117(18), 185101.