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Plasma Physics from the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

This Special Topic highlights new understandings of the plasma physics learned from MMS investigations. We welcome observational, theoretical and computational papers based on the unique capabilities of the MMS spacecraft and instruments, including the small-scale three-dimensional structure and dynamics of magnetic reconnection, the processes that energize particles, and the development of understanding that contributes to prediction and govern space weather. Learn more.

Julia Stawarz, Imperial College London

Kevin Genestreti, Southwest Research Institute

EDITORIALS

Preface to Special Topic: Plasma Physics from the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

Julia E. Stawarz; Kevin J. Genestreti

10.1063/5.0148163

Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas

Dynamics of Earth's bow shock under near-radial interplanetary magnetic field conditions

C. J. Pollock; L.-J. Chen; S. J. Schwartz; S. Wang; L. Avanov; J. L. Burch; D. J. Gershman; B. L. Giles; S. Raptis; C. T. Russell

10.1063/5.0089937

Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport

Slow electron holes in the Earth's bow shock

S. R. Kamaletdinov; I. Y. Vasko; R. Wang; A. V. Artemyev; E. V. Yushkov; F. S. Mozer

10.1063/5.0102289

Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities

On the origin of “patchy” energy conversion in electron diffusion regions

Kevin J. Genestreti; Xiaocan Li; Yi-Hsin Liu; James L. Burch; Roy B. Torbert; Stephen A. Fuselier; Takuma Nakamura; Barbara L. Giles; Daniel J. Gershman; Robert E. Ergun; Christopher T. Russell; Robert J. Strangeway

10.1063/5.0090275

Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas

Electron energization and thermal to non-thermal energy partition during earth's magnetotail reconnection

M. Oka; T. D. Phan; M. Øieroset; D. L. Turner; J. F. Drake; X. Li; S. A. Fuselier; D. J. Gershman; B. L. Giles; R. E. Ergun; R. B. Torbert; H. Y. Wei; R. J. Strangeway; C. T. Russell; J. L. Burch

10.1063/5.0085647

Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas

The EDR inflow region of a reconnecting current sheet in the geomagnetic tail

J. L. Burch; M. Hesse; J. M. Webster; K. J. Genestreti; R. B. Torbert; R. E. Denton; R. E. Ergun; B. L. Giles; D. J. Gershman; C. T. Russell; S. Wang; L.-J. Chen; K. Dokgo; K.-J. Hwang; C. J. Pollock

10.1063/5.0083169

Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport

Strong reconnection electric fields in shock-driven turbulence

N. Bessho; L.-J. Chen; J. E. Stawarz; S. Wang; M. Hesse; L. B. Wilson, III; J. Ng

10.1063/5.0077529

Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas

Theory, observations, and simulations of kinetic entropy in a magnetotail electron diffusion region

M. R. Argall; M. H. Barbhuiya; P. A. Cassak; S. Wang; J. Shuster; H. Liang; D. J. Gershman; R. B. Torbert; J. L. Burch

10.1063/5.0073248

Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas

Investigation of the homogeneity of energy conversion processes at dipolarization fronts from MMS measurements

S. W. Alqeeq; O. Le Contel; P. Canu; A. Retinò; T. Chust; L. Mirioni; L. Richard; Y. Aït-Si-Ahmed; A. Alexandrova; A. Chuvatin; N. Ahmadi; S. M. Baraka; R. Nakamura; F. D. Wilder; D. J. Gershman; P. A. Lindqvist; Yu. V. Khotyaintsev; R. E. Ergun; J. L. Burch; R. B. Torbert; C. T. Russell; W. Magnes; R. J. Strangeway; K. R. Bromund; H. Wei; F. Plaschke; B. J. Anderson; B. L. Giles; S. A. Fuselier; Y. Saito; B. Lavraud

10.1063/5.0069432

Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport

Millisecond observations of nonlinear wave–electron interaction in electron phase space holes

C. Norgren; D. B. Graham; M. R. Argall; K. Steinvall; M. Hesse; Yu. V. Khotyaintsev; A. Vaivads; P. Tenfjord; D. J. Gershman; P.-A. Lindqvist; J. L. Burch; F. Plaschke

10.1063/5.0073097

Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport

The kinetic Alfvén-like nature of turbulent fluctuations in the Earth's magnetosheath: MMS measurement of the electron Alfvén ratio

O. W. Roberts; Y. Narita; R. Nakamura; Z. Vörös; D. Verscharen

10.1063/5.0068828

Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas

Lower hybrid drift wave motion at a dayside magnetopause x-line with energy conversion dominated by a parallel electric field

A. T. Marshall; J. L. Burch; P. H. Reiff; J. M. Webster; R. E. Denton; L. Rastaetter; R. B. Torbert; R. E. Ergun; C. T. Russell; D. J. Gershman

10.1063/5.0071159

Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities

Statistical investigation of electric field fluctuations around the lower-hybrid frequency range at dipolarization fronts in the near-earth magnetotail

M. Hosner; R. Nakamura; T. K. M. Nakamura; D. Schmid; E. V. Panov; F. Plaschke

10.1063/5.0067382

Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas

Whistler waves generated by nongyrotropic and gyrotropic electron beams during asymmetric guide field reconnection

Seung Choi; Naoki Bessho; Shan Wang; Li-Jen Chen; Michael Hesse

10.1063/5.0059884

Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities

Multi-scale observations of the magnetopause Kelvin–Helmholtz waves during southward IMF

K. A. Blasl; T. K. M. Nakamura; F. Plaschke; R. Nakamura; H. Hasegawa; J. E. Stawarz; Yi-Hsin Liu; S. Peery; J. C. Holmes; M. Hosner; D. Schmid; O. W. Roberts; M. Volwerk

10.1063/5.0067370

Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas

Multi-scale evolution of Kelvin–Helmholtz waves at the Earth's magnetopause during southward IMF periods

T. K. M. Nakamura; K. A. Blasl; H. Hasegawa; T. Umeda; Y.-H. Liu; S. A. Peery; F. Plaschke; R. Nakamura; J. C. Holmes; J. E. Stawarz; W. D. Nystrom

10.1063/5.0067391

Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport

Turbulence-driven magnetic reconnection and the magnetic correlation length: Observations from Magnetospheric Multiscale in Earth's magnetosheath

J. E. Stawarz; J. P. Eastwood; T. D. Phan; I. L. Gingell; P. S. Pyakurel; M. A. Shay; S. L. Robertson; C. T. Russell; O. Le Contel

10.1063/5.0071106

Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas

Electron-scale temperature gradients in kinetic equilibrium: MMS observations and Vlasov–Maxwell solutions

J. R. Shuster; N. Bessho; S. Wang; J. Ng

10.1063/5.0069559

Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas

Spatial evolution of magnetic reconnection diffusion region structures with distance from the X-line

M. Øieroset; T. D. Phan; R. Ergun; N. Ahmadi; K. Genestreti; J. F. Drake; Y.-H. Liu; C. Haggerty; J. P. Eastwood; M. A. Shay; P. S. Pyakurel; S. Haaland; M. Oka; M. Goodbred; S. Eriksson; J. L. Burch; R. B. Torbert; Y. Khotyaintsev; C. T. Russell; R. J. Strangeway; D. J. Gershman; B. L. Giles

10.1063/5.0072182

Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport

Energy dissipation in turbulent reconnection

R. Bandyopadhyay; A. Chasapis; W. H. Matthaeus; T. N. Parashar; C. C. Haggerty; M. A. Shay; D. J. Gershman; B. L. Giles; J. L. Burch

10.1063/5.0071015

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