Electron Crescent Distributions as a Manifestation of Diamagnetic Drift in an Electron-Scale Current Sheet: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations Using New 7.5 ms Fast Plasma Investigation Moments

Autor: Rager, AC, Dorelli, JC, Gershman, DJ, Uritsky, V, Avanov, LA, Torbert, RB, Burch, JL, Ergun, RE, Egedal, J, Schiff, C, Shuster, JR, Giles, BL, Paterson, WR, Pollock, CJ, Strangeway, RJ, Russell, CT, Lavraud, B, Coffey, VN, Saito, Y

Publikováno v: Geophysical research letters, vol 45, iss 2

We report Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of electron pressure gradient electric fields near a magnetic reconnection diffusion region using a new technique for extracting 7.5 ms electron moments from the Fast Plasma Investigation. We find that

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Electron Crescent Distributions as a Manifestation of Diamagnetic Drift in an Electron-Scale Current Sheet: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations Using New 7.5 ms Fast Plasma Investigation Moments.

Autor: Rager AC; Department of Physics Catholic University of America Washington DC USA.; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USA., Dorelli JC; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USA., Gershman DJ; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USA., Uritsky V; Department of Physics Catholic University of America Washington DC USA.; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USA., Avanov LA; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USA.; Department of Astronomy University of Maryland College Park MD USA., Torbert RB; Department of Physics University of New Hampshire Durham NH USA.; Southwest Research Institute San Antonio TX USA., Burch JL; Southwest Research Institute San Antonio TX USA., Ergun RE; Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences University of Colorado Boulder Boulder CO USA., Egedal J; Department of Physics University of Wisconsin Madison WI USA., Schiff C; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USA., Shuster JR; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USA.; Department of Astronomy University of Maryland College Park MD USA., Giles BL; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USA., Paterson WR; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD USA., Pollock CJ; Denali Scientific Healy AK USA., Strangeway RJ; Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences University of California Los Angeles CA USA., Russell CT; Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences University of California Los Angeles CA USA., Lavraud B; Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology Toulouse France., Coffey VN; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville AL USA., Saito Y; Institute for Space and Astronautical Science Sagamihara Japan.

Publikováno v: Geophysical research letters [Geophys Res Lett] 2018 Jan 28; Vol. 45 (2), pp. 578-584. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Jan 30.

Wave-particle energy exchange directly observed in a kinetic Alfvén-branch wave.

Autor: Gershman DJ; Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA., F-Viñas A; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA., Dorelli JC; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA., Boardsen SA; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.; Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland 21250, USA., Avanov LA; Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA., Bellan PM; Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA., Schwartz SJ; Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK., Lavraud B; Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse F-31400, France.; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 5277, Toulouse F-31400, France., Coffey VN; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 35808, USA., Chandler MO; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 35808, USA., Saito Y; JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5210, Japan., Paterson WR; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA., Fuselier SA; Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA., Ergun RE; Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA., Strangeway RJ; Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA., Russell CT; Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA., Giles BL; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA., Pollock CJ; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA., Torbert RB; Physics Department, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA.; Southwest Research Institute Durham, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA., Burch JL; Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA.

Publikováno v: Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2017 Mar 31; Vol. 8, pp. 14719. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Mar 31.