selected publications

• journal article

  • Multiple Subscale Magnetic Reconnection Embedded inside a Heliospheric Current Sheet Reconnection Exhaust: Evidence for Flux Rope Merging.  Letters of the Astrophysical Journal. L42-L42. 2024
  • MMS Observations of Oscillating Energy Conversion and Electron Vorticity in an Electron-Scale Layer Within a Southward Magnetopause Reconnection Exhaust.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2024
  • Parker Solar Probe Observations of Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts in Quiescent Plasmas near the Sun.  The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics. 76-76. 2024
  • Density and Magnetic Field Asymmetric Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2024
  • Evidence of a Thick Heliopause Boundary Layer Resulting from Active Magnetic Reconnection with the Interstellar Medium.  The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics. 2024
  • Laboratory Study of Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection.  Space Science Reviews. 2023
  • The Occurrence and Prevalence of Magnetic Reconnection in the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability Under Various Solar Wind Conditions.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2023
  • Magnetic Reconnection Science in the Outer Heliosphere 2023
  • What is the Heliopause? Importance of magnetic reconnection and measurement requirements 2023
  • The Nonorthogonal X-line in a Small Guide-field Reconnection Event in the Magnetotail.  The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics. 2023
  • Future Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and Very Local Interstellar Medium by Interstellar Probe.  Space Science Reviews. 2023
  • Evidence of a Nonorthogonal X-line in Guide-field Magnetic Reconnection.  Letters of the Astrophysical Journal. 2022
  • Formation and Reconnection of Electron Scale Current Layers in the Turbulent Outflows of a Primary Reconnection Site.  The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics. 2022
  • Tripolar guide magnetic fields due to island coalescence in solar wind current sheets: Simulation and theory.  Physics of Plasmas. 2022
  • Observations of Electron Vorticity and Phase Space Holes in the Magnetopause Reconnection Separatrix.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2022
  • Characteristics of Multi-scale Current Sheets in the Solar Wind at 1 au Associated with Magnetic Reconnection and the Case for a Heliospheric Current Sheet Avalanche.  The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics. 2022
  • Observations of Electron Vorticity and Phase Space Holes in the Magnetopause Reconnection Separatrix 2022
  • Spatial evolution of magnetic reconnection diffusion region structures with distance from the X-line.  Physics of Plasmas. 2021
  • Ion Dynamics in the Meso-scale 3-D Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability: Perspectives From Test Particle Simulations.  Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 2021
  • MMS Observations of Double Mid-Latitude Reconnection Ion Beams in the Early Non-Linear Phase of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability.  Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 2021
  • The Occurrence and Prevalence of Time Domain Structures in the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability at Different Positions Along the Earth's Magnetospheric Flanks.  Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 2021
  • Origin of Electron-Scale Magnetic Fluctuations Close to an Electron Diffusion Region.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2021
  • Multiscale Coupling During Magnetopause Reconnection: Interface Between the Electron and Ion Diffusion Regions.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2020
  • Nascent Flux Rope Observations at Earth's Dayside Magnetopause.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2020
  • Parallel Electrostatic Waves Associated With Turbulent Plasma Mixing in the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2020
  • Latitudinal Dependence of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and Beta Dependence of Vortex-Induced High-Guide Field Magnetic Reconnection.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2020
  • Characteristics of the Flank Magnetopause: MMS Results.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2020
  • Electron-Scale Magnetic Structure Observed Adjacent to an Electron Diffusion Region at the Dayside Magnetopause.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 10153-10169. 2019
  • Magnetic Reconnection in Three Dimensions: Modeling and Analysis of Electromagnetic Drift Waves in the Adjacent Current Sheet.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 10085-10103. 2019
  • Magnetic Reconnection in Three Dimensions: Observations of Electromagnetic Drift Waves in the Adjacent Current Sheet.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 10104-10118. 2019
  • A Survey of Plasma Waves Appearing Near Dayside Magnetopause Electron Diffusion Region Events.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 7837-7849. 2019
  • The Relative Importance of Geoeffective Length Versus Alfven Wing Formation in the Saturation of the Ionospheric Reverse Convection Potential.  Geophysical Research Letters. 1126-1131. 2019
  • Energy Conversion by Parallel Electric Fields During Guide Field Reconnection in Scaled Laboratory and Space Experiments.  Geophysical Research Letters. 12677-12684. 2018
  • The Transition Between Antiparallel and Component Magnetic Reconnection at Earth's Dayside Magnetopause.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 10177-10188. 2018
  • Ion Kinetics in a Hot Flow Anomaly: MMS Observations.  Geophysical Research Letters. 11520-11529. 2018
  • Solar Wind Turbulence Studies Using MMS Fast Plasma Investigation Data.  The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics. 2018
  • Generation of Electron Whistler Waves at the Mirror Mode Magnetic Holes: MMS Observations and PIC Simulation.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 6383-6393. 2018
  • The Role of the Parallel Electric Field in Electron-Scale Dissipation at Reconnecting Currents in the Magnetosheath.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 6533-6547. 2018
  • Magnetospheric Multiscale Dayside Reconnection Electron Diffusion Region Events.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 4858-4878. 2018
  • c Magnetic Reconnection, Turbulence, and Particle Acceleration: Observations in the Earth's Magnetotail.  Geophysical Research Letters. 3338-3347. 2018
  • Magnetic Reconnection at a Thin Current Sheet Separating Two Interlaced Flux Tubes at the Earth's Magnetopause.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 1779-1793. 2018
  • On Multiple Hall-Like Electron Currents and Tripolar Guide Magnetic Field Perturbations During Kelvin-Helmholtz Waves.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 1305-1324. 2018
  • The MMS Dayside Magnetic Reconnection Locations During Phase 1 and Their Relation to the Predictions of the Maximum Magnetic Shear Model.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 11991-12005. 2017
  • Turbulent mass transfer caused by vortex induced reconnection in collisionless magnetospheric plasmas.  Nature Communications. 2017
  • Mass and Energy Transfer Across the Earth's Magnetopause Caused by Vortex-Induced Reconnection.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 11505-11522. 2017
  • The Effect of a Guide Field on Local Energy Conversion During Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection: Particle-in-Cell Simulations.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 11523-11542. 2017
  • Dual E x B flow responses in the dayside ionosphere to a sudden IMF By rotation.  Geophysical Research Letters. 6525-6533. 2017
  • Multipoint Measurements of the Electron Jet of Symmetric Magnetic Reconnection with a Moderate Guide Field.  Physical Review Letters. 2017
  • Large-scale characteristics of reconnection diffusion regions and associated magnetopause crossings observed by MMS.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 5466-5486. 2017
  • The nonlinear behavior of whistler waves at the reconnecting dayside magnetopause as observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission: A case study.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 5487-5501. 2017
  • Drift waves, intense parallel electric fields, and turbulence associated with asymmetric magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2978-2986. 2017
  • Observations of turbulence in a Kelvin-Helmholtz event on 8 September 2015 by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 11021-11034. 2016
  • Magnetopause reconnection layer bounded by switch-off shocks: Part 2. Pressure anisotropy.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 9940-9955. 2016
  • Signatures of complex magnetic topologies from multiple reconnection sites induced by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 9926-9939. 2016
  • Turbulence Heating ObserveR - satellite mission proposal.  Journal of Plasma Physics. 2016
  • Observations of large-amplitude, parallel, electrostatic waves associated with the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability by the magnetospheric multiscale mission.  Geophysical Research Letters. 8859-8866. 2016
  • Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of the Electron Diffusion Region of Large Guide Field Magnetic Reconnection.  Physical Review Letters. 2016
  • Observations of whistler mode waves with nonlinear parallel electric fields near the dayside magnetic reconnection separatrix by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission.  Geophysical Research Letters. 5909-5917. 2016
  • Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of large-amplitude, parallel, electrostatic waves associated with magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause.  Geophysical Research Letters. 5626-5634. 2016
  • Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of magnetic reconnection associated with Kelvin-Helmholtz waves.  Geophysical Research Letters. 5606-5615. 2016
  • Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellites Observations of Parallel Electric Fields Associated with Magnetic Reconnection.  Physical Review Letters. 2016
  • Currents and associated electron scattering and bouncing near the diffusion region at Earth's magnetopause.  Geophysical Research Letters. 3042-3050. 2016
  • Subsolar magnetopause observation and kinetic simulation of a tripolar guide magnetic field perturbation consistent with a magnetic island.  Geophysical Research Letters. 3035-3041. 2016
  • Reconnection layer bounded by switch-off shocks: Dayside magnetopause crossing by THEMIS D.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 3310-3332. 2016
  • Asymmetric magnetic reconnection with a flow shear and applications to the magnetopause.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 7748-7763. 2015
  • ON MULTIPLE RECONNECTION X-LINES AND TRIPOLAR PERTURBATIONS OF STRONG GUIDE MAGNETIC FIELDS.  The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics. 2015
  • The role of magnetic flux tube deformation and magnetosheath plasma beta in the saturation of the Region 1 field-aligned current system.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2036-2051. 2015
  • Dual-spacecraft reconstruction of a three-dimensional magnetic flux rope at the Earth's magnetopause.  Annales Geophysicae: atmospheres, hydrospheres and space sciences. 169-184. 2015
  • Observation of a retreating x line and magnetic islands poleward of the cusp during northward interplanetary magnetic field conditions.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2014
  • On the signatures of magnetic islands and multiple X-lines in the solar wind as observed by ARTEMIS and WIND.  Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2014
  • Cerenkov Emission of Quasiparallel Whistlers by Fast Electron Phase-Space Holes during Magnetic Reconnection.  Physical Review Letters. 2014
  • Three-dimensional dynamics of vortex-induced reconnection and comparison with THEMIS observations.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 5742-5757. 2013
  • Investigation of the interhemispheric asymmetry in reverse convection near solstice during northward interplanetary magnetic field conditions using MHD simulations.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 4289-4297. 2013
  • Field-aligned current reconfiguration and magnetospheric response to an impulse in the interplanetary magnetic field B-Y component.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2489-2494. 2013
  • Alfven Mach number and IMF clock angle dependencies of sunward flow channels in the magnetosphere.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2013
  • Magnetic signatures of Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices on Saturn's magnetopause: Global survey.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 393-404. 2013
  • Ionospheric Joule heating, fast flow channels, and magnetic field line topology for IMF B-y-dominant conditions: Observations and comparisons with predicted reconnection jet speeds.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2012
  • Collisionless magnetic reconnection in a plasmoid chain.  Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics. 145-153. 2012
  • Extreme Poynting flux in the dayside thermosphere: Examples and statistics.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2011
  • Multispacecraft observations of a foreshock-induced magnetopause disturbance exhibiting distinct plasma flows and an intense density compression.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2011
  • THEMIS observations of a secondary magnetic island within the Hall electromagnetic field region at the magnetopause.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2010
  • A TORSIONAL ALFVEN WAVE EMBEDDED WITHIN A SMALL MAGNETIC FLUX ROPE IN THE SOLAR WIND.  Letters of the Astrophysical Journal. L36-L40. 2010
  • Asymmetric shear flow effects on magnetic field configuration within oppositely directed solar wind reconnection exhausts.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2009
  • New Features of Electron Phase Space Holes Observed by the THEMIS Mission.  Physical Review Letters. 2009
  • Observations of Double Layers in Earth's Plasma Sheet.  Physical Review Letters. 2009
  • Magnetic island formation between large-scale flow vortices at an undulating postnoon magnetopause for northward interplanetary magnetic field.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2009
  • Observation of an inner magnetosphere electric field associated with a BBF-like flow and PBIs.  Annales Geophysicae: atmospheres, hydrospheres and space sciences. 1489-1500. 2009
  • High-latitude ionosphere convection and Birkeland current response for the 15 May 2005 magnetic storm recovery phase.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2008
  • Eigenmode structure in solar-wind Langmuir waves.  Physical Review Letters. 2008
  • Five spacecraft observations of oppositely directed exhaust jets from a magnetic reconnection X-line extending > 4.26 x 10(6) km in the solar wind at 1 AU.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2007
  • Electrostatic structure around spacecraft in tenuous plasmas.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 1-U22. 2007
  • Multiple magnetic reconnection sites associated with a coronal mass ejection in the solar wind.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2007
  • Direct evidence for prolonged magnetic reconnection at a continuous x-line within the heliospheric current sheet.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2007
  • Electrodynamics of a split-transpolar aurora.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2006
  • Petschek-type magnetic reconnection exhausts in the solar wind well inside 1 AU: Helios.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2006
  • Petschek-type reconnection exhausts in the solar wind well beyond 1 AU:: ULYSSES.  The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics. 613-621. 2006
  • On the generation of enhanced sunward convection and transpolar aurora in the high-latitude ionosphere by magnetic merging -: art. no. A11218.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2005
  • Global control of merging by the interplanetary magnetic field: Cluster observations of dawnside flank magnetopause reconnection.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2004
  • Walen and slow-mode shock analyses in the near-Earth magnetotail in connection with a substorm onset on 27 August 2001.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2004
  • Solar windmagnetosphere-ionosphere coupling: an event study based on Freja data.  Journal of Atmospheric and Solar: Terrestrial Physics. 375-380. 2004
  • EMMA - the Electric and Magnetic Monitor of the Aurora on Astrid-2.  Annales Geophysicae: atmospheres, hydrospheres and space sciences. 115-123. 2004
  • Lobe cell convection and polar cap precipitation.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2003
  • Multi-site observations of the association between aurora and plasma convection in the cusp/polar cap during a southeastward(<i>B<sub>y</sub></i> <u>~</u> -<i>B<sub>z</sub></i>-) IMF orientation.  Annales Geophysicae: atmospheres, hydrospheres and space sciences. 539-558. 2003
  • Timing of magnetic reconnection initiation during a global magnetospheric substorm onset.  Geophysical Research Letters. 2002
  • Comparing a spherical harmonic model of the global electric field distribution with Astrid-2 observations.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2002
  • Lobe cell convection and field-aligned currents poleward of the region 1 current system.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 2002
  • Magnetospheric response to the solar wind as indicated by the cross-polar potential drop and the low-latitude asymmetric disturbance field.  Annales Geophysicae: atmospheres, hydrospheres and space sciences. 649-653. 2001
  • The cross-polar potential drop and its correlation to the solar wind.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 18639-18653. 2000