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Open AccessCross-Scale Processes of Magnetic Reconnection
Various physical processes in association with magnetic reconnection occur over multiple scales from the microscopic to macroscopic scale lengths. This paper reviews multi-scale and cross-scale aspects of magn...
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Open AccessCorrection to: The Van Allen Probes Electric Field and Waves Instrument: Science Results, Measurements, and Access to Data
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Open AccessThe Van Allen Probes Electric Field and Waves Instrument: Science Results, Measurements, and Access to Data
The Van Allen Probes Electric Fields and Waves (EFW) instrument provided measurements of electric fields and spacecraft floating potentials over a wide dynamic range from DC to 6.5 kHz near the equatorial plan...
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Open AccessDirect observations of energy transfer from resonant electrons to whistler-mode waves in magnetosheath of Earth
Electromagnetic whistler-mode waves in space plasmas play critical roles in collisionless energy transfer between the electrons and the electromagnetic field. Although resonant interactions have been considere...
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Open AccessThree-dimensional network of filamentary currents and super-thermal electrons during magnetotail magnetic reconnection
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process by which magnetic field lines on two sides of the current sheet flow inward to yield an X-line topology. It is responsible for producing energetic electron...
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Open AccessMagnetotail reconnection onset caused by electron kinetics with a strong external driver
Magnetotail reconnection plays a crucial role in explosive energy conversion in geospace. Because of the lack of in-situ spacecraft observations, the onset mechanism of magnetotail reconnection, however, has b...
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Open AccessElectron Bernstein waves driven by electron crescents near the electron diffusion region
The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft encounter an electron diffusion region (EDR) of asymmetric magnetic reconnection at Earth’s magnetopause. The EDR is characterized by agyrotropic electron velocit...
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Highly structured slow solar wind emerging from an equatorial coronal hole
During the solar minimum, when the Sun is at its least active, the solar wind1,2 is observed at high latitudes as a predominantly fast (more than 500 kilometres per second), highly Alfvénic rarefied stream of pla...
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Publisher Correction: Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth’s turbulent magnetosheath
Change history: In this Letter, the y-axis values in Fig. 3f should go from 4 to −8 (rather than from 4 to −4), the y-axis values in Fig. 3h should appear next to the major tick marks (rather than the minor ticks...
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Open AccessThe Space Physics Environment Data Analysis System (SPEDAS)
With the advent of the Heliophysics/Geospace System Observatory (H/GSO), a complement of multi-spacecraft missions and ground-based observatories to study the space environment, data retrieval, analysis, and v...
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Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth’s turbulent magnetosheath
Magnetic reconnection in current sheets is a magnetic-to-particle energy conversion process that is fundamental to many space and laboratory plasma systems. In the standard model of reconnection, this process ...
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Open AccessThe FIELDS Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus
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 suite on SPP will make direct measurements of electri...
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Open AccessThe FIELDS Instrument Suite on MMS: Scientific Objectives, Measurements, and Data Products
The FIELDS instrumentation suite on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission provides comprehensive measurements of the full vector magnetic and electric fields in the reconnection regions investigated by M...
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Open AccessMagnetospheric Multiscale Instrument Suite Operations and Data System
The four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft will collect a combined volume of ∼100 gigabits per day of particle and field data. On average, only 4 gigabits of that volume can be transmitted to the grou...
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Open AccessThe Search-Coil Magnetometer for MMS
The tri-axial search-coil magnetometer (SCM) belongs to the FIELDS instrumentation suite on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission (Torbert et al. in Space Sci. Rev. (2014), this issue). It provides the thre...
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Open AccessThe Spin-Plane Double Probe Electric Field Instrument for MMS
The Spin-plane double probe instrument (SDP) is part of the FIELDS instrument suite of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS). Together with the Axial double probe instrument (ADP) and the Electron Drift ...
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Open AccessThe Axial Double Probe and Fields Signal Processing for the MMS Mission
The Axial Double Probe (ADP) instrument measures the DC to ∼100 kHz electric field along the spin axis of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft (Burch et al., Space Sci. Rev., 2014, this issue), completi...
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The Langmuir Probe and Waves (LPW) Instrument for MAVEN
We describe the sensors, the sensor biasing and control, the signal-processing unit, and the operation of the Langmuir Probe and Waves (LPW) instrument on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mis...
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A novel failure diagnosis system design for automotive timing belts
In this study, a novel failure diagnostic system for timing belts was developed in order to prevent a catastrophic belt failure. These failures may occur before running out the nominal belt life and lead to an...
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First Results from ARTEMIS, a New Two-Spacecraft Lunar Mission: Counter-Streaming Plasma Populations in the Lunar Wake
We present observations from the first passage through the lunar plasma wake by one of two spacecraft comprising ARTEMIS (Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence, and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction w...
